Posted by GleninSurrey on January 7, 2007, 1:00 pm, in reply to "Re: overwintering puyas" These puyas were from a mixture of "andean rarities" that mostly seem to be from the warmer parts of Chile. Ray Browne only said that his associate goes around collecting small amounts of local seed and often doesn't even ID the plants, other times just the colour of flowers, etc. I thought this would be more fun than it actually turned out...lots of mundane calceolaria, alonsoa, schizanthus, clarkia...totally annual stuff in my climate. So the puyas are probably from that same biotic region, and apparently not very cold hardy at all. I wouldn't bother with one of these rarity mixtures again...too many other neat plants available from seed where I actually know what I'm germinating! So in conclusion I've stuck all my puyas on the window sill in the house, to keep them totally dry, and I'll give them a bit of water at the roots now that they are a lot warmer. Looks like several are still in fine shape, so I can eventually figure out what sp these are... Thanks for all the thoughts
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Very to the point as usual, Ian. Thanks...of course they are probably dead if the entire centre is rotted right out. Also, I popped several out of their pots and there is no sign of living roots...just shriveled brown rather than plump white stuff thru the media. Oh well...fairly easy come, very easy go.
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