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Should my canna be sprouted yet?
Bonsai-Marc
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had a nice canna last year. then dug up and overwintered in shed in newspaper
moved house and saw it was sending some shoots out so i have now potted and put in bedroom in front of window.
must be 6 weeks or so now and i have seen no growth appear above the pot. i have made sure that didnt go too mad with the watering.
wondering if i should try and dig it up to see if is ok? im keen to put into its new spot in new garden
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ill peek at weekend carefully
i have 3 large begonia tubers also not doing much yet, really hoping these and the canna comes up. a spot already allocated in the garden
i dug up my cannas from pots and only had a couple of small shoots on and i'm in the south east, i can't see them doing much in the near future.
im se/kent and seems the same, it was superb last year.
cut down and dug up for winter and put away in a box, then saw some shoots so potted up to grow ready for the garden.
hoping doesnt take a whole season to just grow a small amount if any at all.
was large and prominent last year
Are you growing them with some heat. I always start mine off inside, until the end of May.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
just indoors on bed in front of a window that gets the morning sun round till about 1pm
peeked and not doing much, now out in garden so if does kick it its now late to get going
but found some canna half price so see what they push out soon
I bought 3 cannas last July which I had in big tubs. In the autumn I placed one tub on my deck in the corner of my house wall/conservatory 9the warmest spot outdoors) and another in the garage still in the tub. The third I removed from the tub, took the soil off as much as possible and put it in the garage loose in it's tub.
I moved the ones in my garage to my greenhouse about 8 weeks ago to start the warming up process, and then to my deck 2 weeks ago (none have had any frost).
The one I left on the deck the whole time has come back the best and is now several inches high. The one I left in the tub in the garage is only an inch or 2 high and the one I took out of the soil is not showing any growth - I am doubtful it will come back.
So next year I will do nothing and leave them on my deck!
yeah good idea, i may just mulch over for winter after cutting down