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We made no changes to the growing regime of the Erythronium americanum whatsoever. The development to begin flowering was nothing of our doing. Might you not consider that a similar peculiar climatic incident might occur at geographically disparate sites ? Freak storms, for instance can occur at the same time in different places, far apart..... but the fact that a neighbouring area to one site was "missed out" does not preclude the effects of the storm in the places where it did "hit"
Götes lack something and hence did not change.
Earlier on in this thread I posted the story of my congested clump of E. tuolumnense having stopped flowering of couple of years ago.I lifted them in 2007 and replanted them in heavilly enriched (dried cow manure + potash) soil. In 2008 they produced lots of leaves but not one single flower yet ! This year they flowered profusely (see earlier pic in this thread) I think nearly every single replanted bulb produced a flowering stem and they are now setting seed.
. People sometimes ask what the difference is between the two species. None at all until they are in seed,
As to setting seed - I don't remember them setting seed before, but they are doing so this year.