The viviparous ones also are much better performers for me (I have 10 varieties). For the most part, they are much more resistant to being overcrowded and rootbound. Many of my non-viviparous ones (8 varieties) just don't do as well in the same conditions. They'll grow, but they never get to a point where they are consistently flowering. I have to keep them in containers by themselves to really get them going nicely. They also seem to need much bigger pots as well. Once they get heavily rootbound, they tuber up and I have to start all over again...
I have a couple of tubers that went into dormancy and never got out of it... they just have a bunch of teeny tiny leaves, but they never create surface ones.... it drives me bonkers because I don't know how to get them out of it. I force many of my plants to make tubers, break them off and it's no problem to make a plant. The others came to me as tubers and never got out of it.... ugh...
For an unrelated question, what kind of containers do you guys use for your hardies?
