Cyclamen

Hi. We were at B&M about 6-7 weeks ago and decided to look at the garden section. They had red cyclamen plants reduced from £7:50 to 5.00 to 50p a box but only neeeded watering.We purchased 5 boxes and planted them in hanging baskets and pots and they have been flowering lovely.
Now this is the 1st time we have purchased Cyclmen and had now idea like a lots of species you get hardy & tender.The flowers have all but died back but leaves still look healthy. I have checked for a corm and cannot feel one so I presume they are indoor tender plants.They seem to of survived the frost but with rain are very wet.Is it possible if I dug them up and potted them up in dry compost in garage they will survive till next spring/summer or it it not really worth it as I am sure they are the tender variety and damage to roots may already been done.Thanks for any inpand then finallyut.

 

If they are very young plants the tubers may be still quite small.
The cyclamen I buy from a GC or supermarket usually flower from around sept/Oct through till Feb/Mar. I do deadhead them often which keeps the flowers coming.

There are begonias - some of which have corms and others that are fibrous rooted and have no corm.

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I wouldn't disturb them now, move them to a frost free place to dry out a bit, but not too much, and hopefully continue growing.
Usually I dry them off as spring warms up.

 

We keep ours in a cold porch from October through to March/April so it might be worth trying a couple in a similar location if you have one.

The key is to only water from below in the saucer and use some Fungus Fighter spray if you see any fungus around the top of the corn / pot.

 

They always plant Cyclamen too deeply, and the base of the leaf and flower stalks can often become mildewy. I always scrape off the surface compost, which is usually soaking wet, and adds to the probability of them becoming mildewy. I believe the corm should be just at soil level, not buried under it.

 

If you see them growing naturally in the garden the corm pretty much sits on the surface.

 

Thanks for all you replies and sorry late getting back to you. I have a update courtesy of a magpie.He was digging around in one of the containers no doubt looking for food and he dug up one of the cyclamen. When I went to put it back in ground I saw a corm about as big as a marble. I now now all of the cyclamen I purchased are hardy. In addition even though most of the flowers have gone over there are new ones coming through. I also learnt that at the early stage new buds are almost like flowers that have gone over and going into their seed stage.I have to wait till seed is big and round and stalk is a bit curly and pull out from base of corm,all a leaning curve.

 

That's good to hear.
It's better for the plant to remove the dead seed heads soon as the flower has fallen.
Then rather than put energy into making seeds, the energy goes into making the tuber bigger, so more flowers next year.
If they were in the ground, then you can let them seed and get more plants.