Apr
26
2009
Spring Has Sprung
Author: DavidA lot of the plants I have that go dormant are usually put into my storage box unless they’re too large. It’s nothing fancy as it’s just a drawer I took from one of my closet shelves. I mix a soil-less with extra perlite, add some water so it’s just a tad moist and cool to the touch, and then bury the dormant tubers in it until they wake up. I often go and check them out (probably four time a week or so) to check that there’s no rot, see if any growth has started, aerate the mix, and add some more water if needed. One particular week I had been busy so I had not been able to check out the dormant plants as often as I’d have liked, and to my surprise there were several saying hello.
Some that were shipped in from other parts of the world as well as the ones I had acquired here were beginning to wake up and stretch out their roots for the season. Before I busied myself for the afternoon potting everyone, I made sure to snag some photos so I could compare in the fall how their growth was (I should’ve weighed them too!). Hopefully they get just as big or bigger by the time they go back to sleep.
