Locally, we
have a ponder who orders them all in bulk for a $1/ea for the club

And mine are delivered to my door via jj's express hyacinth delivery. You
can't
get better service than that!

I think I need to move. Locally I pay $5 CDN for good size WH. Will try the
experiment again next year. Thanks to all who are more experienced for your
helpful comments and suggestions! Cheers,

Heather

Next year, we should get a bunch of would-be WH savers to try the method.
If it works for them, it should go on web pages of hints.

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"gerry" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:47:36 -0400, "Heather"
wrote:

After reading many ways to try and keep Water Hyacinth over winter I
tried
the following:

1. Placed a plant in a quart jar in a sunny window. Kept water topped
up.

2. Placed a plant in a floating tub under grow lights from 7am to 11pm.

3. Placed a plant in a net bag and sunk to the bottom of the pond. 4
feet.

Result. - They all died.

Too bad.

After 3 years, I wintered them just fine! (MA Zone 5).

I put them under metal halide lights, lost all the first year

Last year only two sickly ones survived - took off fine.

This year I have dozens looking pretty good, if a tad small.

Secret was not temperature indoors, it was mo algae on the roots, cleaning
dead debris, aeration and a major dose of fertilizer in February.

gerry

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gerry misspelled in my email address to confuse robots

"Heather" wrote in message
. ..
Locally, we
have a ponder who orders them all in bulk for a $1/ea for the club

And mine are delivered to my door via jj's express hyacinth delivery.
You
can't
get better service than that!

I think I need to move. Locally I pay $5 CDN for good size WH. Will try
the
experiment again next year. Thanks to all who are more experienced for
your
helpful comments and suggestions! Cheers,

Me too. I just bought one for $5. Totally stinks.

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"Jim and Phyllis Hurley" writes:

We are now in the 5th season with our hyacinths. All the indoor wintering
efforts failed. Here in MS, the pond does not deeply freeze. We get 1/2"
of ice once of twice. Our water, obviously, gets to 32. Mostly, however,
it is in the 30's or even 40's in the winter. We put a plastic sheet over
the hyacinth before the first real freeze. We leave the leaves on. In the
spring, the leaves are mostly dead from the cold, but the roots make it as
do a few leaves. Once the temp is reliably into the 40's, we strip off the
dead leaves and toss the mostly nude plant into the pond.

It sounded at first like you over winter them in the pond but then
you say you toss them into the pond. Where were they?

whats top posting? I always hit respond thats the way to it?



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Hi REBEL JOE,

whats top posting? I always hit respond thats the way to it?

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Top-posting or bottom/interspersed-posting?
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the article, followed by the text it is replying to. A
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sometimes quote the old text and sometimes don't.

I personally prefer bottom/interspersed posting. It makes it far
clearer which part of your reply corresponds to which part of the
previous posting, and it keeps that section of the conversation in
chronological order (which is very useful for people coming into the
thread cold, or those reading lots of groups and thus needing a bit of
a reminder about the thread.) However, many posters on the MS groups
top-post and no-one gets very worked up about it. I suggest that you
quote appropriately whichever way you're posting - otherwise things
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