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Begonia Bonfire

ColinAColinA Posts: 392
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Last year I bought a Begonia Bonfire, it turned out to be a fabulous plant in a hanging basket. At the end of the season I carefully dried of the tuber but could not get it to restart into growth this spring, has anybody been successful with this variety and if so what is the best wat to regrow

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  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Is the tuber hard, or had it gone soft and mouldy?
    Did you plant it the right way up?
    I put mine in soil, on a window seal indoors, around march time, as it's too cold outside.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I grow them from saved tubers, started in a propagator in February.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I keep mine wrapped in newspaper, in the dark,  when they shoot, I set them.
    maybe the OP had vine weevil in the corm,  I spend ages picking them out at the end of the season. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ColinAColinA Posts: 392
    I put into a pot of compost in March and nothing happened even though there were no signs of rot and the corm was still firm
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    How did you plant it?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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