Well it’s nearly Christmas so it is time to get going on those spring
jobs in the greenhouse. The first job every spring for us is to repot
the Pleiones and we will aim to have them all done by the middle of
January.
We took all of our Pleione bulbs out of their old pots in November and
now they look like this Pleione formosana bulb with the new growth
starting to show signs of growing. Definately time to pot it up as this
growth will produce a flower in March or April.
The compost we use at Writhlington is a mixture of course orchid garde
bark, dried sphagnum moss and a little perlite. Their are other
composts that work too but we like this open, free draining but
moisture retentive mix. For display we place a number of bulbs in a
15cm half pot. For a good display we select bulbs that all have growths
at the same state and position the bulbs so that all the growths will
face the same way
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