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Paye Six
Probable Causes Of Recent Low Bud
Count In Croft Lilies When “Forced”
THURSDAY Mj>,
PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON
forcers with bulbs having v ia b le . experim ents w ith southern-grow n d much faster in aB
roots.
Creole bulbs-
The effects of the ue
..L>r-|tion
11 is also interesting to note flower number show/,
‘ The practice of accelerating th a t as digging was delayed the esting points. In all
ldies is of comparatively recent bulbs with few exceptions, bloom-
Concluded on
origin. Laurie and Poesch, in their
“
appeared in the Florists book "Commercial Flow er Forc
Bv E. P. BREAKEY which
Review, July 29. 1943, and in the ing" (third edition, 1941) make
F lo rists’ Exchange and H orti no mention of it. It m akes possi
Bf cause of numerous requests cu ltu ral Trade World, Sept. 25, ble the flowering of southern-
this article is being republished 1943) is suggestive, particularly grown lilies for C hristm as trade,
by the pilot, a fter having ap when reviewed in the light of re or earlier, and is also a means
peared in these columns last No cent experiences. These studies of conserving greenhouse space,
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were based on Louisiana-Grown since the length of tim e between
vember.
Crofts and Creoles and the re the potting of bulbs and the open-
S tate C ollege of W ashington sults were summarized as follow: 1 ing of flowers can be m aterially
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1. Prelim inary c o m m o n o r , shortened. B arney B rierley (in
A gricultural Experim ent Station
high tem perature s t o r a g e , in hls article on Effect of Cool Stor-
Puyallup, W ashington
The Croft lily has achieved the eith er moist or dry peat tends to Cge of E aster Lily Bulbs on Sub
reputation of being one of the reduce the effectiveness of sub- sequent Forcing Perform ance, ap-
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world's finest E aster lilies. It has sequent storage at 50 degrees, j p a r in g in Jo u rn al of A gricultur-
2. In comparison with moist a j Research, March 15, 1941)
been outstanding as a pot plant
and for this reason has had an (slightly wet) peat, storage, i n s ta te s : "Cool S torage of E aster
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ory peat result* in delayed erner- j j.jy bulbs is a convenient prim-
enviable place in the trade.
Recently, however, forcers have gence a n d flowering, shorter a ry control over tim e of flowering,
complained of poor bud counts on 1 plant
a n d feder flowers per The customary' control factor,
th e plants grown for the E aster! plant
forcing tem p eratu re, can be used
3 The adverse effects of dry^as a fjne adjustm ent a fte r this
m arket.
rag»- could not be overcome by prim ary control has been applied.’
The situation became critical,
w ith the approach of Easter, 1946 soaking the bulbs in w ater over The studies of S tu a rt and Brier-
end can no longer be ignored night prior to potting.
ley show, however, th a t accelera-
D ouobtless th ere are rea*<»ns for | ) n pack Vs. Moist Pack I *’<>»1 in flow ering alw ays results
V. A. Mendenhall Sr. ..
\y. E. Hi
A distributor ‘who handled a \ir. few er flow ers per plant.
and it is th< purpose of this ar-
.
.
i _ r _ p IMirtin n o f t h e l found ,h a t unstored bulbs (the
Templar Hotel Bldg.
Brooking«
lunh £ h » 'v ,n ran eXplana’ !° n ° r lily bulbs produced in the Pacific ' southern-Brown creo,es and the
such behavior
nerthw-est in 1945 demanded th at C tofts) produced 7.5 flowers per
The answers to the question , ,
,
. .
may I»- found in the literatu re
grow ers, pack th eir bulbs in plant, with blooms commencing
peat. He doubtless had his 259 days a fte r planting, while
c l in the experience of success- jd
j 1 ry Peat.
i f ih .tv
m i r Ih p n i rpasons for ignoring the results storage for four weeks at 50 de-
ful growers
, ,»„0 i.hi/xh
studies should ,i Kr,
be initiated
which ‘ f S tu a rt's studies. When these 8rpes halved the flower count and
will lead to a solution of the bulbs failed to produce the antic- reduced to 134 the num ber of
ioated bud counts, however, the days to blooming. How do Pacific
problem.
It is only natural, of course, distributor was among the first northw est lilies com pare w ith the
. r the
..
,
' to place the
n lilies in th e ir re
fe
average forcer
to uiU'
blam e,
un blame
u m m e on
o n the
in c bulb
o u io s°uthern-grow
«
, may 'grow ers
sponse to such tre a tm e n t? A see
YOUR INSPECTOR will be In the
the grower for any losses he
ond article by Neil S tu a rt "In
when
the proper time comes.
experience. This is often u nfair Problem of Shrinkage
fluence of H arvest Time and Stor-
■(nce the grower has no control
IN
ORDER to save time and expense
A nother unfavorable r e s u l t age on Forcing N orthw est Lilies”
over the bulbs a fte r they have
from
the
use
of
dry
peat
as
a
in
Florists’
Review,
Sept.
13,
1945-
you
and
the CO-OP you should get and s
left his hands. It is well known
packing m aterial is the shrinkage may contain the answ er to this
your fields clean and the better you rogue,
’ , ,
r .b
b 'm
', 7 '
b" ll)S Th"
« have'question.
.he life of the bu b is .he time
r r i , lc,z„(, for sell-1 s i u a r f , s
better rating you will get for the inspection1
w ere based on
elapsing between l e a v n g th e ¡„g undersized bulbs. Some of thia „ „ ¡ J " ™ * * studies
,
close this season.
L
, uniform sam ples of Croft, E s
grow er's hands and arriving on
cribe,sm was doubtless m erited., ta te s, and Ace E a ste r lllies th
HA\ E READY a list of the number
the forcer’s bences. This period However,
. . .. experience
„
.
. has .. demon- w ere grown in Oregon. The bulbs
brings the distributor into the
kinds
of yearlings and commercials you
strated th at when bulbs were w ere harvested a t intervals of
transaction as a facor of good i
.............
n i
in.,
e#
pecked in dry peat they w i’l lose four, six and eight weeks a fte r
planted,
dates of plantings and kind of
lily performance.
_.
. , . .
as much as one whole size by the full bloom.
lizer
used.
B e assured that the grower
they reach the forcer. Such
m on’ than anxious to produce
The three dates of digging w ere
IE YOU CAN not be on hand makeai
u..iK .u . i n
«
.
| dessication usually m eans th at
bul »
« .Il perform
far- , he
W]|, W]th„, and Hrv i A ugust 15 and 31 and Septem ber!
ments
for someone to show the inspector'
tot ily on the fo rc e rs benches
^ be resu^ts
these)
Also, such treatm ent tends io
field.
He
will make ONE call ONLY, and if'
We are reminded, however, that
throw the bulb into a pe >riod of studie# wpre sum m arized as fol-
" p chain is no stronger than its
’
low
s:
essary
for
him to make a second call, it wi2
w eakest link.” It is essential for ’ dormancy" from w h i c h it is
“In all three
varieties
the num-
at
your
expense.
aroused
with
difficulty.
V
iahlei.
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,
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us to locate the weak links and j roots are evidence that the bulb- r
days to b,ooni w as reduced
YOUR El ELD must be inspected if
strengthen them w henever possi has had proper care since hiring
th ® » ^ a g e tem p eratu re was
ble to do so.
bulbs
are to be packe by the CO-OP. This no
dug. It should be emphasized th at owered !t 18 especially interest-
(’auses of Low Bud-count the lily, in nature, does not b e -11” 1° note th a t ,n aI! instances
will appear only in two issues.
Somc of the causes of low bud come dorm ant in th« sense that . deKree storage had less effect
count ari* apparently known. For the tulip or bulbous iris does.
in hastening flowering than 35
example, an article by Ned W.
Development is n a tu ra lly pro degree storage, although 50 de
S tu a rt (in which he told of th e ' gressive and should not be p er gree was consistently more effec
West Coast Bulb G rowers (Co-opt
influence of tem perature and the ' m itted to become retrogressive. tive than 35 degrees in previous
length of storage on forcing per-1 N orthw est grow ers should cap it
form ance of domestic Et
irti alize on th eir ability to supply the !
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