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KD wrote:

Any advice out there?

Thanks,

KD

Don't take posession of the bulbs until you can plant them. Over your
bulbs/corms in peat moss or dry sawdust and don't seal them up in
plastic containers. Let them breathe. Keep them cool and in the dark
over the winter.


This is correct.

In the fall, when they are dug up, leave corms with intact greenery out on
newspaper in your basement for a few weeks.

Then, pick a warm sunny fall day and take them outside to shake off soil.
Set aside the cormels (little white babies) and cut off the corm greens with
clean knife or scissors. Do not wash the corms. Store in a loose net bag
in your basement for the winter. They need cool dry darkness for storage.
Sand or dry peat is not required.

Cormels can be planted after Christmas if you wish to increase your corm
collection. Start them in damp seed trays in bright indirect light, they
will take 8-12 weeks to sprout at which time you can increase the watering.
Plant outside as soon as frost danger has passed, in the same manner as the
corms. The cormel sprouts can be planted in nusery containers. Look after
them over the season, and in the fall repeat the process, harvesting the
larger daughter corms, which next year, should be large enough to generate
flowers.