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What's happening to my cyclamen?
wakeshine
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Hi there, as per title. I love cyclamens and not sure what to do. Pink was given to me in January. It was doing so well, with reblooming in the summer. I did move the location. Could it be lack of watering? I water it, it perks up, then every time I come back from in the evening I find it has become like this. Now the water is going straight through potting medium and it ends up sitting in water, which I thought was bad.
White was bought couple of weeks ag. Leaves yellowing and looking really unwell.
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Well my garden growing Cyclamen have all started to go dormant now so maybe that is what yours are doing? Sorry I'm no Cyclamen expert but thought I would just pass on whats happening in my garden right now.
Thanks Ladybird4...don't you thinkt these look quite ill though?
Thats just how mine went in the garden.
It could be they are too warm in your house? To prolong their lives have you anywhere really cool you could keep them, remove the dead flowers - easiest way to do this is to run your finger and thumb right down to where the flower stem meets the corm and a gentle twist should remove the complete stem without too much effort. Dead and dying leaves take a little more persuasion. Once the flowers are over with then just withold water until the corms become dormant and all the foliage has disappeared. As yours are indoor I would then keep them barely moist - in their pots - a cool frost free place until you see new growth in the Spring. Then repot in fresh compost and start watering again - not too much at first though.
my garden cyclamen are just waking up, the C. hederifolia that is, nothing else.
I'm the kiss of death to a house plant but I know that those sort don't like it too warm, or sunny, or too much water.
Yes, they look very sad wakeshine.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Shall I move them outside onto the table on the patio? It's cooler there. I thought the outdoor variety was different? Or are they all really outdoor?
Is this cyclamen coum, or cyclamen heredifolium?
No, not all outdoor, I don't know what you've got there but assumed indoor, I think it is, looking at it. The outdoor ones are smaller in flower and leaf. It will be OK in a cool place outdoors in summer though
In the sticks near Peterborough
the stems on the pink one have started to stand up a bit now. Watered just before posting. The leaves are still very yellow. It is still sitting in water though.
I have cleared up the white one - taken off all brown leaves and petals. I am going to put them outside on the table and see how they do.
Do you know the lighting requirements? Are they for bright sunlight or partial shade?
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partial shade I should think, though as I've never kept one alive don't take my word for it
In the sticks near Peterborough
Indoor cyclamen are usually C. persicum. That's what yours look like. They need to be allowed to die down and restart.
Put them outside in a cool shady corner and tip the pots on their sides and leave them to dry off. They will lose all their leaves.
Leave them there and keep an eye on them - when you see new little leaves appearing in the autumn, take them out of their pots, shake off as much compost as possible and repot in good houseplant compost, keeping the tops of the corms just proud of the compost.
Bring them indoors and keep them on a well lit windowsill, but out of direct sunlight. Water gently - don't water the corm just the compost. It's best to water by standing the pot in water for an hour or so to absorb moisture then allowing it to drain off.
Hopefully you'll get new flowers before too long.
Last edited: 13 August 2016 14:23:48
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.