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| I bought this gorgeous orange star flower (Ornithogalum Chesapeake series) a while back at the grocery store. It lasted seemingly for months, but is finally fading and I am wondering about re-forcing it for next year. It is not frost tolerant, so I can't plant it outside, but I would really love to try to let it go dormant and replant it next winter.
Anyone ever do anything like that?
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| Okay so with no takers on this one, I decided what to do with it... I'm going to treat it like an Amaryllis. I will put it outside after frost and let the foliage soak up the sun (transitioning it in part-shade to avoid sunburn). I will bring it into the garage in August/September and let it go dormant. Then it goes to a cool dark corner of the unheated basement in late October or November. THen I bring it up in January or February and cross my fingers. I detect that there are 3 separate bulbs in the 4" pot. I may divide them into 3 different experiment pots and alter the treatment a bit (shade/sun, moist/dry, dormancy length). However, after making this plan, I noticed that one of the leaves is turning yellow and it reminds me that it might be acting like a daffodil If so, there goes my plan... :-( Maybe its just an unhappy leaf.
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- Posted by Randi Fox(randimfox@ymail.com) onSat, Jul 30, 11 at 1:14
| I received this same plant for mothers day from my boyfriend and children. It lasted for 2 months and acted almost like a tulip. I also found the bulbs and am treating them like tulips. I really don't know if this is right or wrong. Any extra information you have on this I would greatly appreciate since I really don't want to lose this great gift. |
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- Posted by littleonefb z5MA (My Page) on Sun, Jul 31, 11 at 22:08
| This link should provide you with some info to help out, seems to have lots of good advise and experience from the past couple of years with this plant. I glanced through some of the posts that start in 2006 with the original post and there are posts that go through 2011. Hope it helps with what to do. Fran |
Here is a link that might be useful: info on growing orange star bulb.
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