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? re cypripedium and blettila
My order of three species of each of these genera arrived just before the
weekend. I ordered them so they'd arrive in the second half of April, based on what the last few years here have been like. However, over the last couple of weeks we have seen temperatures as high as 25 degrees Celcius, followed a day or two later by daytime highs of -2 degrees Celcius. Today it was well over 14 degrees Celcius, and yet I heard a weather forcast for tomorrow calling for wet snow. I am wondering if it remains too risky to put them in their final destination yet, or if I should pot them up and then in a couple weeks go through the usual process of hardening houseplants that are to go outside. And if I should put them in pots, would they do well in those biodegradable pots (e.g. Jiffy pots, which are made out of some kind of fibre - designed to minimize transplant shock by allowing one to just place the whole pot in the ground, or so the package says) in ordinary potting soil. All six have broken dormancy. The vendor thought that putting them in pots would be higher risk than putting them into their bed and perhaps covering them should the temperatures drop too much. What do you all think? Cheers, Ted |
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