On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:12:50 GMT,
(Rodger Whitlock) wrotc:


Try potting wild-collected cyclamen tubers in *coarse* sand using
fairly deep pots and parking them in a sheltered coldframe out of
direct sun. The tubers *will* revive if you give them half a
chance, though it may take two years (or even longer) before
growth is strong enough to put them into the garden.

Even better than pots full of sand would be a bulb crate full of
sand, and even better than that a coldframe with about 6" of sand
in the bottom.

Fine sand or sand that has a lot of silt in it, tends to be too
soggy. The idea is that one keeps the injured tuber moist, not
wet, in an environment where they are not exposed to soil-borne
pathogens.


Whatever.

Anyway what you describe is a far cry from some poor tuber of a
species native to the mountains of eastern Turkey being uprooted by
some dollar starved 'campesino' (for want of the Turkish equivalent).


Hussein
Grow a little garden