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Water Hyacinths
Hi Jerri:
One of our club members was successful at overwintering hyacinths. He used a metal halide light, with rapid gro added to the water in a kiddy pool. It was just an experiment, because as it turned out he figured that the 250 watt metal halide cost more to operate that 2 seasons worth of hyacinths! Most hyacinths managed indoors survive in our area until about February/early March, when they turn to mush. I add them yearly to my compost pile, it's not cost effective to overwinter. BTW, we are in zone 5. Happy ponding, Greg -- "Jerrispond" wrote in message ... Theoretically, a bucket of pond water with some Hyacinths in willoverwinter in the greenhouse/garage/shed as long as it doesn't gettoo hot/cold. They can then be returned to the pond after the last frost of the spring. Glad to see you wrote the word theoretically....because in all my ponding years I have never known anyone in zone 7 or colder to sucessfully winter any over. Even with grow lights and the whole bit Jerri http://www.fringeweb.com/Ponds/JerrisPond |
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