Cyclamen hederifolium

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  4 January

  I just take the seeds as they are ready to pop,  they germinate very quickly.  I’ve never waited for seedlings. 

  I suppose you could transplant them anytime , maybe give glass protection until they are bigger. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  4 January

  Have you tried sitting the baby corms in a tray of pure grit, leaving them outside in a sheltered spot, and leave them for a year or two? Most of my seedlings seem to grow in fresh air.
  I have my first hardy cyclamen in flower in a raised bed, I spotted them yesterday. I have a mix of hederfolium, coum and neapolitanum scattered around the garden, plus those moved by mice, etc in stone walls and gravel paths so can usually find one in flower  somewhere,at any time of the year.

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  4 January

  Under glass, out in the open, wherever. At the moment they fail to survive. The ants here do not seem to move them around like they did in our previous garden. C. neapolitanum is a synonym for C. hederifolium by the way.
  

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• Rubytoo Posts: 1,630

  4 January

  When I first got ours I lifted them when they were in leaf. But I think you have to treat them very gently.
  It is harder to find them when they are not, but more vulnerable if you break the leaf or roots.
  
  I kind of dibbled them out in little groups however they decided to "give way" when lifting.
  And I mostly just dumped them in little clumps where I wanted them to spread after improving the soil a little by loosening and adding a little fine compost/leaf mould. 
  And made sure they had water when first year if it did not rain, until the leaves died off as they had just been transplanted.
  
  When you say pot them up do you grow them on in pots? 
  It is too easy to get them too wet I think when they are tiny.
  Best to keep them on the dry side in winter if you are growing them on in plastic trays or pots. Shaded and not too wet.
  
  I do think you have to treat them very gently when transplanting, but I am sure you know that.
  
  Other than that as you are an experienced gardener, feels like teaching grand parent to suck eggs
  
  Also taking capsules as they ripen and sprinkling them where you want them seems to work. Just under trees in amongst the leaves in borders.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  4 January

  I set the seed and keep in the GH until germinated and grown on a bit,  but they don’t grow to well outside here anyway, so I keep them in flowerpots. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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