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| why is this so hard. There were a ton of the bigger type poppies growing, (but they were small plants at the time, maybe couple inches high) so I dug them out, planted them, and they all withered within 4 days or so and dried up. I planted some outside, and some in my greenhouse, some in pots, etc. No success! What am I doing wrong. This is the bigger poppy with the big double flowers that haven't bloomed yet. Not the spring kind that blooms early in Wis.
Its been great weather here for transplanting, cool and rainey (good for weed growth too) |
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- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 15:26
| Answered you on the other poppy thread. Oriental poppies have a tap root that resents being moved... especially when the plant is still actively growing like yours were when you attempted to transplant. You may have had more success waiting until they died back and stopped actively growing as evidenced by the browning and drying out foliage. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 16:50
| you have to do it.. when they are tiny ... dig a new hole with a hand trowel ... go to the 2 inch plant.. take all the soil and plant the trowel will hold.. and place it in the duplicate hole.. do it in rain.. on a cold day [which is when they are that small]... and you can do it ... if i were to try it from greenhouse seed ... i would use a 6 oz dixie cup ... dig a hole the size of a 6 oz dixie cup .. and slide it from cup to ground ... in other words.. try to move them with a big enough ball of soil.. so that you do NOT disturb the roots.. but simply move the plant ... make sense?? ken ps: i failed this year.. because 2 days after i did it.. it went to 100 for 2 days ... crispy critter at that point ... |
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| It's not clear from your post whether you're trying to transplant perennial oriental poppies or annual ones. Annual poppies (Papaver rhoeas) do not transplant. They just die. |
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| Or even Papaver somniferum, which also resents disturbance. |
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| It's easiest for annual poppies to save seed and then sprinkle them where you want them next year rather than trying to move plants. In general poppies resent root disturbance more than any plant I know; you have done anything wrong other than expecting you might have success. |
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