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Sep 20, 2019 3:12 AM CST
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Name: Ron
Modi'in Israel (Zone 11a)
I have this plant blooming now in several stems , I see that some have some yellow balls ear the baseline, and some none. What are they , seeds ??

Can I grow new plants from them ?


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Sep 20, 2019 7:21 AM CST
Name: Deborah
midstate South Carolina (Zone 8a)
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I believe they are bulbils. Hopefully an expert will chime in.
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Sep 21, 2019 12:07 AM CST
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Pacific Bulb Society notes
Globba schomburgkii likes warm moist weather and partial shade. This species can be somewhat weedy in regions where the bulbils produced by the inflorescences survive the winter cold

Many of the species have the rather peculiar habit of producing bulbils on the inflorescence in place of the lower flowers and in one Indian species the bulbils are somewhat spicy and occasionally eaten.

Globba species naturally inhabit more or less strongly monsoonal climates. The Koba Koba Nursery in the U.K. suggests that they should be dried off in winter allowing them to go dormant, a state from which they are often a little reluctant to emerge in late spring. Drying them off is easiest in pots but when dry some are quite hardy and can take a few degrees of frost. It is possible to overwinter some of them in the garden but they do need a deep, dry mulch. The "dry" season in tropical Asia should not be mistaken with desert dry. It lasts 2-3 months with periodic rain during this time. Thus drying it out too much could explain the shock that causes the reluctant emergent of dormant tubers
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Sep 21, 2019 2:03 AM CST
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Name: Ron
Modi'in Israel (Zone 11a)
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I know about it dormancy, I read on the web that it is dormant when temperature goes down below 65 F, this is what I have in winter, it can go down at night up to 42-45 F in winter. But this will be with all the rain that we have in winter. I planted it last summer, just before the winter, it was dormant till May, and then start growing like crazy.It seems like too much water during dormancy had no effect on it.

In summer we have a hot (92-105F ) temperatures and high humility (75%+ at daylight, and close to 100% at night), no rain, but with artificial watering it grows like crazy.

Weedy I have no problem, it is growing in a pot on the balcony.

P.S. do you know if globba winitii has the same " problem " with dormancy and bublets ?
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Sep 22, 2019 6:49 PM CST
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I don't know. I have a book on forcing that includes a section on Globba, though not much.
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Sep 22, 2019 10:05 PM CST
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Name: Ron
Modi'in Israel (Zone 11a)
jmorth said:I don't know. I have a book on forcing that includes a section on Globba, though not much.


I know, for some reason, there are a lot of tropical plants, without almost any information about their grown conditions.
I had some problem with Dayak onions, almost no info in the NET how to grow them, only small video on YouTube how to divide them.
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