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Dividing and managing shell ginger
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Posted by tigersfoot Bahamas (My Page) on Tue, Jul 27, 04 at 17:12
| My shell ginger is over 8ft tall., Gorgeous and definitely a plus to our garden. My question is how do I manage this plant? I've read about dividing the plant, but don't know how to do this.
Also, how often does one tuber (is that the correct term) bloom? last year I naively cut a whole bunch of tubers to the ground and now wonder if I'd cut down newer ones that hadn't bloomed yet, old ones that might have bloomed again or wether I should have dug them up and not left the stump in the ground to rot.
can anyone help me?
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RE: Dividing and managing shell ginger
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| The shoots will only flower once and then decline over the next one-three years. So if a stem had flowered you can cut it to the ground. However, the shoots normally do not flower in their first year either (at least not in my area) and need a second year to flower. So if you cut off all shoots every year you will probably never see a flower. Clumps can be divided with an axe, crowbar, elephant or dynamite, especially if you live in an area with heavy soils. Don't worry it does not seem to be prone to rotting, to the contrary. |
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