How to identify cyclamen varieties from their corms

Gardening

[@jongwennap7853]

Brilliant Robbie🤓👍

[@pip-woollycwtches]

I guess i’m a nerd 🙈 as i’m finding this interesting 🤔. I love the leaves and as i said before, didn’t realise there are soo many verities. 👍🏻

[@guinessparis1]

Another nerd here! very interesting video in fact i find all your videos interesting - keep up the good work

[@WingofTech]

What an exciting video with true passion. Awesome work you two ✌️😎👌

[@vicstee482]

I love cyclamen. Thank you for the explanation. Really interesting! They always puzzle me knowing the difference!

[@stephbeardsworth6989]

Fascinating, really useful. Thank you.

[@christopherkowalewski]

very very useful info - especially for the graecum to be happy in its pot

[@matadaniel6520]

Your knowledge of cyclamen is amazing - I love your content ❤👍

[@rachelgilders130]

I have become a cyclamen nerd - what an exciting video! I didn’t know two things number 1 That although I have loads of cyclamen and have grown more from seed (following your instructions) All my cyclamen are the same type. Number two You sell them and sent them through the post!!!! Excellent! 🥰

[@kateseverein7650]

Well done, so interesting, thank you!!!

[@lucyosborne7296]

Just found a whole box of corms in my garage, which I must have bought 2 years ago before I moved house. Couldn’t even remember ordering them let alone which variety. They’re still alive. Somehow and I found this link, so I’m sorted.

[@dirkpietertas]

Thanks Robbie, as a former professional Cyclamen grower I found this very interesting! Please continue with this, I am continuing to build up my collection at the moment and hope to receive some seeds from the society soon ;-)

[@woofpet]

Thank you from ants who is loving this 😁 Eatched it lots of times and it just popped up again so that I can enjoy it all over again. Hope you are well Robbie x

[@danipelland1507]

I had never heard of a cyclamen before I found you on the internet. Who would of thought that they would be as interesting underground as above. I can now identify them in my grocery store florist area but have yet to find and at a nursery. Thank you for sharing. Love your content!❤️🇨🇦

[@wendyrual7179]

Seems like there is a lot of us cyclamen nerds!!🤣 Another great video Robbie x💜

[@Royaliize]

Im Def a cyclamen nerd, and I loved every single bit of this video Robbie. Fast question how Hardy is the greacum? I saw one at the nursery some days ago and it looked amazing! Keep up the good work :)

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Royalize The Plant Man, C. graecum are apparently quite a tender plant, but I’m yet to lose any to the cold. I’ve been growing them in my unheated greenhouse in Somerset for 6 years now. It goes down to -5/6C over winter and they seem ok with that. I wouldn’t take my chances by leaving them outside but in the greenhouse they survive. I’m in the south of the UK, near the coast and in a very sheltered field surrounded by trees so quite cosy really 🌻

[@kennethreister7619]

Great presentation! I have a question. I have a several thousand, i believe, Hederifolium. Nearly 4000 potted up and more waiting to come out of flats. The thing that I'm wondering about is that a small number of juvenile tubers are rather an elongated plum shape, taller than wide. I'm trying to keep track of these with tags. Could these be something other than Hederifolium? Maybe they will just grow out of their nonconformal shape. Bloom time of my plants vary. Some start as early as July 17 w/o leaves, others prefer to start blooming in September and have leaves at the same time. I've had one plant hold flowers through the end of November. They seem to have roots mostly on the upper side although I have found one with roots coming out the side at only one point. I don't know if that's because of damage or maybe it's not a hederifolium. My growing location has a Warm dry Summer Mediterranean character with Cool wet Winter. Temps do dip well below freezing occasionally in the winter -9.5C. Coldest -21C Thanks for being such a wonderful teacher. I do consider myself one of your students.

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

not strictly related to this video but my bomarea hirtella didnt flower this year, two years in the 1 foot deep pot, thought it would be ideal for tubers. All the best Robbie

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi •, nature always has its own agenda, sometimes plants are reluctant to flower if well fed. Just a couple of questions- have you been giving it regular feeding and has the plant grown a lot of lush foliage this year? I’ll try to work out what’s going on. All the best Robbie 🌻

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

stinky ditch nursery Sorry but for some reason I can’t click read more. The plant has been in the same soil for 2 almost years never been fed.

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

Yeah the plant has grow about 40cm of plant

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

@@user-yx7dp2pl8t sorry for the late reply, Just a couple more questions, apologies, how many stalks does it have? and is it kept inside or out? Either way if you pot it on into a larger pot it will probably go mad next year. I have found that they only put on a small amount of growth in the first few years and they suddenly grow 2m stalks. I will help you to get it to flower next year just need a bit more info, Robbie 🌻

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

@@stinkyditchnursery750 i planted 6 seeds and there must be 8 or 9 stalks and yes I will pot it on and hope for the best, all the best to you too robbie, great channel!

[@harrysmart6236]

cracking nerdery .. more please! C. cyprium, C. mirabile, .C. africanum, C. intaminatum, C. thingummium.

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Harry Smart, as the long suffering Katy would say “please don’t encourage him” ! I have at least one of each on your list, apart from the C. thingummium (I’ll have to look that one up). Unfortunately they are all mixed in with my hederfolium and coums, labels all washed off years ago! It’s going to be a proper nerdy week of serious, intense identification. Something I’ve been meaning to do for a few years now, it’s always so busy over winter and spring that I don’t find the time until summer, so it waits another year! Apparently the best way to sort out your C. africanum from your C. hederfolium is to leave it outside over winter and see if it survives, if it doesn’t it’s an africanum!! Thanks for your message, C. thingummium made me laugh out loud 😃 all the best Robbie

[@henryedwards6994]

I’ve got some outside and the corms/bulbs are the size of dinner plates, they are in flower now. Are they different to your indoor ones and my indoor ones which are just starting to come back to life now after resting over the summer? TIA

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Henry Edwards, your outside cyclamen the size of a dinner plate will be a cyclamen hederfolium. The indoor variety are cyclamen persicum, they start putting on growth late autumn with the flowers appearing in early spring. Many of the indoor persicums are forced into flower prematurely to sell over the winter. After a few years they tend to settle back to their natural cycle and flowers appear in spring as they do in nature. I hope this helps Robbie 🌻

[@brendabailey2307]

Hi Robbie Question I’m moving to a house that has three conifers at the bottom of the garden. Could I grow cyclamen in them, if so what would be the best one ? I personally love Coum.

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Brenda Bailey, cyclamen will do well under some conifers. Both Coum or hederifolium will work fine. You could plant both varieties to have some late summer flowers from the hederifolium and winter flowers from the coums. If you do plant both varieties put them in different patches, not all mixed in together as the hederifolium will over power the coums in a few years. An area for the coums and an area for the hederifolium only a couple of feet apart will work and should self seed and naturalise well. If after a few years you start to get hederfolium springing up with the coums just lift them and move them. If you just go for coums then cyclamen cilicium grow well with coums to give a longer flowering season (cilicium flower in autumn) and add a bit of fragrance. I hope this helps Robbie 🌻

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Brenda Bailey, cyclamen will do well under some conifers. Both Coum or hederifolium will work fine. You could plant both varieties to have some late summer flowers from the hederifolium and winter flowers from the coums. If you do plant both varieties put them in different patches, not all mixed in together as the hederifolium will over power the coums in a few years. An area for the coums and an area for the hederifolium only a couple of feet apart will work and should self seed and naturalise well. If after a few years you start to get hederfolium springing up with the coums just lift them and move them. If you just go for coums then cyclamen cilicium grow well with coums to give a longer flowering season (cilicium flower in autumn) and add a bit of fragrance. I hope this helps Robbie 🌻

[@brendabailey2307]

@@stinkyditchnursery750 oh thank you so much. When we move are they something I can get from you ? When is the best time to put them in the ground ? Many thanks for your reply.

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

@@brendabailey2307 cyclamen can be planted at anytime of year. When you need some message me and I will sort it out. My website doesn’t have all of my stock on it, I’m potting on some more coums at the moment that should be ready in a couple of months, I’ll be listing them on eBay and my website then but if you need anything earlier just message. All the best Robbie

[@mariekathrynhammond7794]

Robbie. I don’t know why you keep apologising. We’re watching because its interesting and we like how you present it. (Although you probably need a more cheerful camera person) 🙂

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi Marie Hammond, apologising for myself is a habit of a lifetime I’m finding hard to break! I was an unusual kid so didn’t really fit in at school, at quite a young age I started thinking I was constantly doing something wrong, still feel it now after all these years! Maybe it was my teachers, they didn’t really know what to do with me apart from tell me off a lot for being myself! I’ve always had lots of energy so, I was probably a bit of a handful, still am at times! But underneath the guy you see in the vids is a little boy that thinks he is going to be told off at any minute, even with all the lovely messages I get it’s a state of mind I’m finding hard to shake off, I’m working on it, thanks for your message, they really make a difference and yes, I do need a more cheerful camera person!! All the very best Robbie 🌻

[@mariekathrynhammond7794]

@@stinkyditchnursery750 thanks for the reply Robbie. It’s such a shame that’s the mould you got squashed by. It’s clear you’re a gifted man with a great personality. I look forward to your videos and watch them all even if it’s not something I’m growing on my little patch ☺️

[@MsLbraun]

Can you ship to Canada?

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

Hi MsLbraun, I’m afraid I can’t, I can post seeds but not plants. I wish I could spread my plants all over the world but unfortunately only a few countries allow it, sorry to disappoint. Thanks for watching, all the best Robbie 🌻

[@MsLbraun]

@@stinkyditchnursery750 I’d take the seed, if you will send how would I pay?

[@stinkyditchnursery750]

@@MsLbraun I have some seeds on the Canadian eBay, I think if you search for stinky ditch nursery cyclamen seeds I should come up. The postage is quite a bit from the UK, apologies for this. All the best Robbie 🌻

[@paulos034]

I think I've watched 7 times now. I must be turning into a nerd as well.