tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post6548581569772950395..comments2024-02-19T08:20:41.322+00:00Comments on Growing Oca: The Flowering of OcaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14999959164086250161noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-19615969268576794092019-11-02T20:08:53.428+00:002019-11-02T20:08:53.428+00:00Our allotment Oca started flowering around 18th Oc...Our allotment Oca started flowering around 18th Oct. Weather has been cool and wet since mid sep very wet through Oct. Got lightly touched by frost <br />28th Oct. Plants in Pots have not floweredAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-51457079126667255282013-06-25T03:16:38.612+01:002013-06-25T03:16:38.612+01:00Our oca is getting ready to flower. We're abo...Our oca is getting ready to flower. We're about 300 meters from the ocean on the coast of Washington, so it is almost always cool and damp, but there has been plenty of evening fog keeping everything nice and wet. We have a few plants with buds that look close to opening and several dozen that are just emerging from the axils. Another data point three years later. ;)Bill W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03636359040288510223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-21694566678187968202010-10-31T16:36:06.549+00:002010-10-31T16:36:06.549+00:00Just wanted to let you know that my Oca flowered o...Just wanted to let you know that my Oca flowered on and around the 21st September this year. Thanks for the link to the radix root crops facebook page as well. Have joined.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01600828461516709741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-46681838244473186322010-10-04T20:26:35.411+01:002010-10-04T20:26:35.411+01:00I have not seen any flowers yet, but oca plants se...I have not seen any flowers yet, but oca plants seem to grow well in my garden outside Copenhagen in Denmark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-88825017243105452802010-09-20T07:16:12.570+01:002010-09-20T07:16:12.570+01:00Thanks for the photos, now I know what I'm loo...Thanks for the photos, now I know what I'm looking for! But no signs of flowers in Oxfordshire yet ;)Emmahttp://coopette.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-20948141651826247972010-09-19T22:21:45.368+01:002010-09-19T22:21:45.368+01:00Thanks for the plug Ian. I've just had a look...Thanks for the plug Ian. I've just had a look at a friend's ocas, a couple of miles from mine - small and stunted and not many flowers. I can only assume that soil moisture availability is critical, although some of my big plants haven't flowered. The confusing world of Oxalis tuberosa.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-61459582118012656262010-09-19T10:44:05.301+01:002010-09-19T10:44:05.301+01:00Thanks Robert. Good to hear from you - I hope you&...Thanks Robert. Good to hear from you - I hope you're okay.<br />Your observation supports my thinking that cool and/or moist weather is needed for flowering, but whether it could be to do with humidity, maximum temperature, night temperature, general plant stress ...<br />Can you remember the rough dates of flowering last year?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14999959164086250161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877603171717741431.post-32160502301862728232010-09-19T10:11:18.615+01:002010-09-19T10:11:18.615+01:00No flowers at all this year, in Birmingham UK. We ...No flowers at all this year, in Birmingham UK. We had an early heatwave, followed by cooler, wetter weather. I had flowers on one variety last year, after a much wetter summer.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com