A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Plant Propagation Dividing Gladiolus and other bulb type plants

Some of my gladiolus have three stocks together. Is it time to divide them? What about the blackberry lily it also has three stocks comng up from the same root.

I'm not too sure what you mean by three stalks...like one branching into three or three separate ones (which is what I'm thinking). Glads are corms and the way they grow is, the corm that you planted (mother corm) will bloom, and at the end of the season, it will grow little corms around itself (the daughter corms). Up here, we have to dig up our corms each year, and it's usually the daughter corms that we keep and we throw out the mother corm. I'm guessing down where you are you can keep them in the ground all year round?? You can dig them up and divide the daughter corms from the mother corm and plant them elsewhere. Just break them off, but to be safe dust the wounds with fungicide so it won't get infected by bacteria and fungi.

Thanks Kennyso, I'll have to see if anyone has some fungicide around that I can borrow. I love the idea that I'll have more of these next year. They are really pretty and I need a bunch more of them.