Cyclamen Coum not Flowering
Hello all,
I have a couple of Cyclamen coum in a shady spot, in a pot on my balcony. (I have hederefolium in the same pot). I planted them in the autumn, and they're pretty small still.
They look happy enough, with plenty of leaves (though some have a bit of an aphid issue which I'm dealing with by manual squishing at the moment). The thing is that I don't see any sign of flowers or buds. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, but perhaps I'm just being impatient. Should I have given a high potassium fertiliser perhaps? I planted in fairly poor loamy soil.
I live in Switzerland, so it's a little colder than the UK. But my first snowdrop, on the same balcony) is just about to open, and my winter-flowering honeysuckle has bulging buds.
Thanks,
Owen.
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Depends on the size of the corm. Small ones take a while to reach flowering size.
Not sure about growing them in the same pot as hederifoloium. They need slightly different conditions. C.coum prefer a little more sun than C. hederifolium to get them to flower well.
Thanks Berghill. That's interesting. So maybe I won't worry if they don't do much this year. I didn't know that they needed more sun. So perhaps move them to half-shade in spring?
I would move them, some of mine have seeded into more or less compete shade and they are very poor compared to those in more open sites.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great information both.
But leave the hederefolium are ok in pretty much complete shade?
C.hederifolium is much more of a woodland plant than C. coum.
Excellent. Thanks.