Learning how to water plants to increase growth in pots, container or garden - especially how to water roots and tubers. Specialities: root growth or tuber growth of lawns, fuchsias, geraniums, dahlias and begonias.

3 February 2011

Budding Begonia Mystery Continues

new begonia bud appearingI still can't work out what caused premature budding of one of the begonia tubers in store. old begonia budsAlthough turning up the propagator heat to about 20 deg C (68 deg F) has produced this new bud on the blank tuber, there is little further development on the older buds, already present on the other tuber(right). So they must have been growing for months in store to have developed so much at such low temperatures. Begonias only grow slowly. It has me beaten.

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