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Begonia started from seed BUT no tuber grown???
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Posted by started_with_bean Zone 5--MA (My Page) on Tue, Jan 26, 10 at 11:15
| I started a couple of tuber Begonias from seed this past May, and stored them in the pot in the closed in back porch this season. When I went to get the tubers out this week to start them, I couldn't find any! Do they not make tubers the first year? It was November when I cut them down to the dirt level after I'd stopped watering them for a month. Can it be I didn't let the frost do them in first? |
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RE: Begonia started from seed BUT no tuber grown???
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| does it perhaps freeze in your pourch? |
RE: Begonia started from seed BUT no tuber grown???
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| No, but it does get close to it. I read on another post that you can leave them in the pot in an unheated garage to overwinter. Perhaps it was just too cold. I guess I learned my lesson. |
RE: Begonia started from seed BUT no tuber grown???
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| First year plants don't make tubers right away. I bought a gorgeous one a few years ago already blooming. I knew from the leaves it was tuberous because I do grow my own. When the leaves dropped off (I had taken it into the house to enjoy it a little longer) I dug around and couldn’t find any tubers! Not so much as a pea sized lump. I asked on here and was told it takes a while for the tubers to form. To keep the whole pot undisturbed, let it dry out, store it in the cold dark basement, and leave it until April. Then bring it up to light and give it a bit of water. This I did the next spring. Soon I had sprouts: seemingly from nowhere! Again all summer I enjoyed it blooming lushly. This fall I brought the whole pot in again. When the leaves dropped off I let it dry out. After having the plant almost 2 seasons, now I could find tubers. They are still small, each one less than an inch: closer to 3 /4. |
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