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Diogenes lantern Calochortus amabilis

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Light Diogenes lanternSole pieno
The Diogenes lantern should be preferably located in a place where it can have at least a few hours a day of direct solar light. If you desire cleaning the ground from the bulbous plants after flowering, wait for the leaves to dry; later it’s possible to take the bulbs out of the ground and place them somewhere dark, cool and dry, until the best season to plant them again.These plants are rustic in the areas with a Mediterranean climate, therefore they can be grown outside.

Cultivation Diogenes lantern
The Diogenes lantern has a panel-like development, therefore it tends to widen very much. This plant in the spring assumes a yellow colouring; it is small in size and can reach 30 cm high. It doesn't keep its leaves in the winter. These plants are bulbeous.

Fertilize Diogenes lantern
Let’s use a slow release fertilizer, or manure, when planting, mixing the product to the ground; during the spring let’s mix, every 15-20 days, a specific fertilizer for bulbous plants to our irrigation water, starting from the moment in which the first flowers are withering.

Water Diogenes lanternTenere asciutto
Let's water abundantly, moistening the soil deeply with 1-2 glasses of water , but let's act only when the substratum is dry, leaving it dry even for 1-2 weeks before watering it. We suggest not to exceed with the waterings: if the soil remains damp too long, it can favour the development of rotten in the bulbs.

Pests Diogenes lantern
As the day-time temperatures rise at the beginning of the spring, it is agreeable to practice a preventive treatment, with a wide-range insecticide, which should be applied when there aren’t flowerings in the garden. Before the buds become too large, it is advisable to also treat them with a wide-range fungicide, to prevent the development of fungal diseases which spread easily when there is an elevated environmental moisture.

Mold Diogenes lantern
Let’s favour soft soils, with an elevated drainage.

Climate
peat
sand
Soil
Pumice
Bark
S. Organic
alpine
5
0
4
0
0
1
continental
4
0
4
0
0
1
mediterranean
3
0
4
0
0
1

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Plant Diogenes lantern

If desired, we can grow the The Diogenes lantern in a container. The indications given in this article are related to a medium size plant.

This page concerns the weather mediterranean it is possible to choose another climate area alpine continental

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