MUSCARI CUTFLOWER INFORMATION
VARIETY NAME:		CUPIDO
TOTAL NUMBER OF COOLING WEEKS:		16 WEEKS
EARLIEST START COOLING DATE		25 AUGUST
COOLING TEMPERATURE		9 DEGREE C (LATER 5 DEGREE C)
NUMBER OF BULBS PER BOX (LILY BOX SIZE)	10/+	140 pcs.
	9/10	160pcs.
For cutflower muscari 'CUPIDO' is a variety which will be very suitable for cuflower purpose because it will make lenght
easily.
Cooling (9 degree C) can be started from August 25 and will be first given to the dry-bulbs.
From end of October you can plant them on boxes with peatmoss and continue cooling by planted condition for at least
another 8 weeks.
When you keep the planted boxes longer in the cooling room and store for more than 8 weeks in planted condition which
is possible to do.
Please take care that you redecu the temperature week by week the control the sprout and make sure they will not hit
the box above.
The muscari's will ot make a very strong rooting system and when the hit the box above they easily pull up when you
take the boxes out of the cooling room and take off from each other.
The muscari's can grow by low temperatures and do not to be heated. When you like to make a stable forcing programm
the advise is to keep a temperature of 16 degree C and open the greenhouse by 20 degree C.
When the muscari's have reach the cutting stage you can store the uncutted boxes in 2 degree C easily another week.
This will have NO infuence on the flowering time of the muscari after you cut it.
On the next pictures you will get some impression about the cutflower muscari:
CUPIDO			ARTIST
MUSCARI'S AFTER COOLING IN THE GREENHOUSE.
CUT THE MUSCARI TOGETHER WITH THE LEAVES WITH A KNIFE:
BUNCHING OF THE MUSCARI TOGETHER WITH THE LEAVES