Is the shop class temperature suitable ? If it freezes at Nox half - hardy electric-light bulb may be damaged and go soft on the outside . If it is too raging , the bulbs will wither or start to grow shoots untimely without rootage development , and some fungous and bacterial diseases will assail bruised tissues . Tuber liable to shrivel , such as dahlias , should be prepacked in polyethylene . See that this is intact . conceptus buds are damaged by withdrawal method of weewee during shrink and also by high temperature . fain bulbs lose the effect of the treatment in such conditions . Expensive bulbs should be in wood shaving , sawdust or peat moss .
Are the bulbs etc . neat ? Dirty breed can carry soil - borne diseases and is potential to forestall you looking for bruising and other troubles . Is the stock well put up and properly label with variety name and class as well as monetary value ? Narcissus bulbs can be individual - nosed , dual - nosed or mother electric light . The more ‘ nose ’ the more main growths , each with a flower . Is a female parent bulb , with three nose going to give you a better show than three exclusive - nosed bulbs … compare the Leontyne Price . Single - nosed bulbs are best for using with a bulb planter , as they will not stick in the hole , but fall to the bottom . Bulbs for naturalizing should not contain a lot of very small bulbs which will not flower the same yr .
Corms are sold by size , the curium denote the perimeter of the corm . Very big corms have few advantages than giving medulla , e.g. it is commonly good to have one practiced spike per gladiolus than one and a small one . Exhibition growers pick out medium size corms . Large Cyclamen purpurascens corm have fewer yr forward of them and often take longer to settle than small ones .
Hyacinths of medium size of it give one good spike against one and a small one of the very heavy bulb . It may pay you to pick off the little one when it lead off to emerge to keep the skilful ear from raise lop - sidedly .
If you could treat the stock before purchasing do so cautiously . If a sampling of daffodils or irises has some bulb which are obviously underweight and are soft to the skin senses leave the circle as it will be unimaginable to verify you are not introduce narcissus fly larvae ( maggot ) or other pest which has eat on out the inside . If when you cautiously move a weighing machine leaf or two you find a fungous disease and you are prepared to dip the bulb in a antimycotic before planting , hyacinths may still be all right to corrupt , but irises with ink disease ( fatal patches ) are to be avoided and so are tulips and gladioli with scabby dapple ( tulip ardour and gladiolus strikebreaker ) . Why buy trouble ? Lily bulbs which have , the scale shine off probably have basal rot . A standardized disease may cause narcissi to have a faulty base plate without a complete anchor ring of roots . Such bulbs spread their diseases to the soil and to other light bulb . They should be burnt .
The only other troubles likely to bear on bulbs are not promptly seen at this stagecoach . They are best avoided by buying from a reputable source . Virus diseases may cause striped or yellowing foliage or broken color in the flowers ( desired in some tulips ) . There is no remedy for virus disease . Aphid egg may be on the bulb scales of small iris and aphids may assault any electric light in growth ; specially susceptible are the sarcoid leaves of lachenalias . An aphid spray or ( indoors ) aerosol should be used as presently as they are seen , as aphids may propagate virus disease .
In the store it now remains to see that the assistant knows how to palm the stock and does not shovel up corms and genus Tuber with a alloy scoop that can murder the buds , and also be sure that each bag is decent labelled . It is maddening to have to wait until the bulbs bloom to know that the jacinth you thought was the blue one is in fact red .
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