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Tuberless Begonias
I just dug up some begonias I'd planted early this year, expecting to
find some kind of tuber to store over until next winter. But alas, there was nothing but a root system down there. I know there are at least two different types of begonias, but I was sure this was the tuberous kind. Could it be that I dug it up too early? Too late perhaps? -F |
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Tuberless Begonias
"Fleemo" wrote in message om... I just dug up some begonias I'd planted early this year, expecting to find some kind of tuber to store over until next winter. But alas, there was nothing but a root system down there. I know there are at least two different types of begonias, but I was sure this was the tuberous kind. Could it be that I dug it up too early? Too late perhaps? -F They must not be the tuberous kind - the tubers are there when you plant tham and there when you dig them up to store. In fact, the tubers just keep increasing in size over time. The only way they would not be present if they were the tuberous type of begonia is if they had rotted, but your plants would have died in that case and it would have been obvious. pam - gardengal |
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Tuberless Begonias
It has been my experience that "non-stop" tuberous begonias do not produce
that same type of big tuber at the end of a season that other bigger-flowered varieties do. Perhaps these plants are usually grown from seed or from cuttings rooted the previous winter and therefore have not had the time to develop a big juicy tuber - I'm not sure. But while they bloom prolifically all summer long, they usually don't have much of a tuber at all under the soil come late fall- sometimes nothing but a mass of roots. I usually relate them to the small dahlias raised from seed - which usually also do not produce much of a tuber by summer's end. "Pam - gardengal" wrote in message news:%56zb.282671$275.1001558@attbi_s53... "Fleemo" wrote in message om... I just dug up some begonias I'd planted early this year, expecting to find some kind of tuber to store over until next winter. But alas, there was nothing but a root system down there. I know there are at least two different types of begonias, but I was sure this was the tuberous kind. Could it be that I dug it up too early? Too late perhaps? -F They must not be the tuberous kind - the tubers are there when you plant tham and there when you dig them up to store. In fact, the tubers just keep increasing in size over time. The only way they would not be present if they were the tuberous type of begonia is if they had rotted, but your plants would have died in that case and it would have been obvious. pam - gardengal |
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Tuberless Begonias
"gregpresley" wrote in message
... It has been my experience that "non-stop" tuberous begonias do not produce that same type of big tuber at the end of a season that other bigger-flowered varieties do. Perhaps these plants are usually grown from seed or from cuttings rooted the previous winter and therefore have not had the time to develop a big juicy tuber - I'm not sure. But while they bloom prolifically all summer long, they usually don't have much of a tuber at all under the soil come late fall- sometimes nothing but a mass of roots. I usually relate them to the small dahlias raised from seed - which usually also do not produce much of a tuber by summer's end. You're correct in stating that "non-stops" do no produce much of a tuber the first year. The ones I purchased were started from seeds, a bonus in their reproduction, and were small seedlings when purchased. They did grow and bloom well the first year (zone 3), but the tuber they produced was almost non-existent. I found that most of these tiny tubers dried up and died if dug up and stored. To counteract this, I left them in the pots in which they were growing with the growing medium, and watered a couple of times during the storage period. By the end of the second year, most of them had developed large enough tubers to survive normal storage methods, and by the third year many of them produced tubers as large as the those regularly sold. John |
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