Viewing post #920404 by MstrPBK

Seedfork said:I didn't even know what you were talking about, I actually thought you were talking about the type of plants you can buy at Walmart or Sam's (just the only two sources I knew of ) a little dried up plant with some roots and a crown with a little peat moss thrown in with it.
But this article talks about rhizomatous hostas.
http://www.hostalibrary.org/sp...
So it looks like to me the rhizomes should have been spread out instead of being bunched up and planted vertically. Then the roots should form from the rhizomes and spread down and the eyes would emerge with the leafs spread over a larger area?
This is the best link I could find with info on them, it includes some suggestions on how to plant them.
https://ask.extension.org/ques...
Hope this helps.

As a general rule I do not purchase from non-nursery sources because there seems to be a sense within the gardening community that those sources of plants have a higher chance of being diseased or virused. I have left the name of the nursery out of this discussion as that is unimportant to this thread.

While this topic touches on the rhizomatious growing behavior of Hosta [mind you all hosta are rhizomatious]; the real focus here is what is the appropriate planting technique of planting a hosta rhizome ball - when that's all that your given. In the first post of this thread I made it clear that I had never experienced starting a plant from that stage of growth.

After reading the links provided by SeedFork ... I suppose ... I ought to go out there to dig the plant out and try to reposition the rhizomes. Hearing nothing to the contrary here - that's my garden job tomorrow.

Peter Kelley
St. Paul, MN USA