The wax is not just transport packing. It is intended to hold in the moisture in the bulb until the flower blooms.
If I want to try to make the flower bloom again next year, I will have to remove the wax, let the bulb dry out for a few months, and then place it in potting soil and water and fertilize it. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 11:28 AM Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 24.11.22 um 17:14 schrieb Alan C: > > Easy marketing. You really need to open the encapsulation & plant in a > > pot them if you want them to survive. We have some which have been > > flowering annually for years. > > Could it be that the wax is just meant as some kind of transport packing? > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012 > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
