I think I overheated some of my bulbs last year when I was soaking them in fungicide. I’ve noticed a lot of mis-shapen Rapture blooms. Don’t panic if the bulbs you got from me last year also produce mis-shapen blooms – I don’t think it’s a disease, just rough treatment.
I had several bags go bad during storage and spread corpse-dust throughout my storage area, so I re-treated everything with a fungicide dip in late summer. Partway through I noticed that the fungicide I was using was supposed to be mixed at 80 deg F. Rather than using a thermometer I just winged it and am pretty sure I went to far and overheated things. I still haven’t out-grown the tendency to over-react when I get mad. I expect this to be spotty (I didn’t do it consistently) and to affect small bulbs more than large.
Ulp, sorry.
Kathleen Simpson
Harmony WV where it was snowing this morning!