Have just returned from holiday and while looking through the Cyclamen-L group messages spotted the enquiry from Andrews Avery re the major decline in a...
J & G Martin
keithmar@...
Sep 2, 2002 6:43 am
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Very interesting. Something that puzzles me is that they are sometimes said to not like draughts, & we suspect that the one that was declining (still seems...
Hmmm, well, I keep 2 fans running on my plants in my greenhouse all winter; they don't seem to mind at all...so I'm not so sure about drafts (draughts)..think...
Perhaps part of the "decline" could be put down to the poor plants being removed from presumeably perfect commercial growing conditions and then transported to...
... Yes, I see I spelled it both ways in my msg, being originally from Philly (so I have some idea of what Maryland is like) but living in Australia for about...
Hello Keith, Have just reread your article in the Cyclamen Society Journal and today read with interest your comments on a potting mix and a shade house. The...
Hi every one, I agree with Keith Martin that Cyclamens are not indoor plants. The main reason that people try to grow them inside is because of the marketing...
Thanks for a very thorough and informative summary of your growing conditions. I too keep my cyclamen outside - except for display. 5 days for inside display...
I presently have quite a few pots of C. hederifolium and C. africanum blooming in my greenhouse. My greenhouse is not large and I do have a fan going all the...
Yvonne Rorison
yrorison@...
Sep 3, 2002 9:02 pm
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Do you ever keep them in rooms with electric fan-heaters in the walls? My experience so far suggests that this is death, perhaps because of going from say 40F...
I sure wouldn't! In my experience, C. persicum does NOT like heated rooms and would not like that type of heat at all (actually, can't think of many plants...
Marge is absolutely right about the temperature. As far as exposure goes, mine are mostly in a Western light in winter or in a moderately light room for long...
Interesting posts. While I would agree that cyclamen are basically plants for the outdoors, I've seen a few articles about growing C. rohlfsianaum indoors on a...
Steve Walters
wal@...
Sep 5, 2002 10:45 pm
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Cold drafts coming down off windows are seeming like another negative factor to me (for persicum), we left one that seemed to have had its decline halted near...
Folks, I have just finished setting up the search feature on my web site and implemented it for the complete photo collection (now around 1800 photos). When...
... Avery, Which way was the window facing? If you got direct sun through that window you may have cooked it. A pane of glass can act like a huge magnifying...
Howdy All, I recently purchased from a friend a few small plants of various cyclamen species. In one pot there was an extra leaf, obviously not from the ...
Paul, still being a complete novice with cyclamen, I have no idea but have to say what beautiful flowers, they really are lovely, I would like to know what...
John Just a minor point but viewing the page for cyclamen the names cause the pictures to misalign if one has more lines than the other. Having said that it's...
Ted Wilcox
ted.wilcox@...
Sep 7, 2002 11:06 am
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Hi Paul, The flower is some form of repandum, the leaf is not pelops but could be repandum ssp. repandum. J. Dr John T Lonsdale 407 Edgewood Drive Exton ...
Thanks Ted, I've raised this issue with the company that wrote the script and they promised to come up with a fix shortly. J. Dr John T Lonsdale 407 Edgewood...
... could be repandum ssp. repandum. ... Thanks John (and others who have contacted me), I had pretty much figured that, but thought it was best to ask. The ...
Hi, coming to this rather late, but my guess it is C.r . peloponnesiacum. "Pelop" was I think a loose cultivar name for forms around in the 80s that had...
Hi, it's that time again, lots of dried tubers appearing in UK Garden Centres, with misleading pictures on the packaging . The worst I have seen this year is...
Hello, Seeing mention of CSE expedition seed reminds me that although I know what this designation means, I do not understand how to designate that I would ...
Hi Marcia, the way it works is that the CSE seed is listed on the page opposite to all the boxes in the Cyclamen Journal. You won't see collection numbers,...
Yes actually there was a short period of early morning sun on the plant, but it seems to have recovered its condition, so things are back to `decline halted'...
You're right about lax labelling standards, Mark. You'd think the bulb merchants (mainly Dutch?) would take the trouble to match the correct photo to the...
Steve Walters
wal@...
Sep 7, 2002 11:32 pm
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Marcia mentioned that she now finds hardware cloth too stiff to be easily moulded into a corm cage. I wonder about a tea ball? It would be big enough for a few...
