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What is the best way to ship a dormant hedychium
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Posted by irish_rose_grower z7 LI NY (maureenpm00@hotmail.com) on Wed, Mar 15, 06 at 19:10
| Hi. I have a Tara ginger to trade with another forumer. It's been planted in my yard since the summer/fall and is completely dormant. (I hope it's still alive).
My questions is, how do I ship this? How do I dig it up and do I remove all of the soil? I have no idea of what it will even look like when I dig it up?
This is my first ginger so I have no clue as to what I am doing.
Thank you
Maureen |
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RE: What is the best way to ship a dormant hedychium
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| I would pop it out of the ground, hose off the dirt, wrap the rhizome in slightly damp newspaper, place inside a plastic bag, and then put in box with lots of crumped newspaper to keep it from banging around. The rhizomes look a lot like a Bearded Iris Rhizome. If healthy, the rhizome should be firm. |
RE: What is the best way to ship a dormant hedychium
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| Maureen, if your Tara is alive, and you have any to spare for another trade, would you check my trade list? I have lots of hummingbird plants, and also white butterfly ginger. My ginger is making little red growth knobs, but some of the large tubers were dry, unfirm, and had shrivelled roots. I'm curious if Tara bloomed for you this far north, even if you can't trade. Lisa |
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