There is a misconception about these inspections being some sort of a total 100% guarantee that the bulbs or plants you are purchasing are completely pest and disease free! We ship bulbs all over the country and so far ONLY…
Category: Bulb Information
Information about condition and health of bulbs.
HWT
Dear Friends, An interested discussion on HWT. Daffodils and ealworm belongs together all over the world. But how to CONTROL this problem? The ealworm is active as long the bulbs are in the soil,they go in rest after digging and drying.…
freezing? an alternate to HWT?
From up here in the far north where the ground freezes solid up to 6 feet deep: Much research has been done on cold hardiness in plant materials in my neck of the woods, Minnesota. Those of us in the…
an alternate to HWT from Margaret Seconi NZ
Margaret, I few years back I brought bulbs along on a September trip to NZ. They had proper phyto documentation from Grant Mitsch Daffodils and were in good health. I declared them upon arrival at Auckland Airport. Your MAF officials…
sun-drying bulbs
Daffnetters, My experience with bulbs left in the sun is quite different from that of Clay Higgins and Dave Adams. Here in Oakley, California, any bulb missed in digging and left in the sun for a few days will be…
an alternate to HWT?
Hot water treatment as far as I have read will NOT kill the various virus’s that daffodil bulbs can be infested with. Hot water treatment for bulbs is normally used to kill mites, nematodes, bulb flies ETC. There is an…