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My mom is digging out Crocosmia Lucifer that has been growing for many years.
Some of the corms are the size of a child's fist, with progressively smaller corms stacked (laid side by side?) attached to them, sometimes in stacks of 7 or eight.
Obviously the corms offset by putting out a new corm , etc. and obviously the smaller ones will get larger and will bloom (maybe next year? 2 years?)
Lets say that you have a stack of corms that is, for example, 6 corms deep/tall/wide (not sure where they grow spatially), the largest 2 being huge, the lrest tapering down to 'tip-of-your-thumb' size.
Here are my questions:
If you separate the corms, will you have 6 viable corms?
Will the largest 2-3 corms grow best? Not at all? The same as the smaller ones?
Has the largest corm(s) blown its genetic wad and should be thrown away?
Or will it not bloom, but produce new corms that will?
My mom in Washington State (zone 8) wants to mail a box of them to me and she does not want to waste space or postage on the largest ones if they are not the good ones to have.
Thanks in advance for your help (pictured is Jenny Bloom, I think, but not Lucifer)
Lorie in SC
(yeah, I know it is not the best time to mail them, but am I going to say no? NOT! I will take my chances)
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