A small corm growing at the base of a mature corm.
（长于球茎底部的）小球茎
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As maturity approaches, the leaves begin to diminish in size, flowering occurs and the cormlets reach maximum size for the season.
Removal of buds in cutting reduced inflorescence number and corm and cormlet yield.
The cultivars do not necessarily grow true from their seeds, though the offset cormlets do grow true to the parent.
The plants produce numerous cormlets and the flowers are lighter in color with more prominent inrolled staminodes.
Grows satisfactorily from cormlets, because husks of cormlets are very hardy and they sprout very long.
Inoculation increased the number of cormlets produced by two of the three varieties, however only one variety produced larger cormlets when inoculated.
You can dig them up and peel off the cormlets to grow new plants.
It will take anywhere from 2-5 years for these cormlets to produce a flower.
Any small cormlets can also be planted out next year, but these won't flower, but will grow into larger flowering size corms for the following year.
The small cormlets can be removed in the spring and planted with the regular corms in a nursery row.
Here on the west coast, where every wee cormlet left in the ground in the fall sprouts in the spring, home gardeners will empathize with Parkinson.
If mowed earlier than this, the newly forming cormlets (developing on top of the mother corm) will not become large enough to flower next year.
This involves picking off the cormlets and replanting them elsewhere in the garden.
Take care to remove all the little cormlets too, you may want to keep them to build up your planting stock.
In order to propagate, lift the corms and gently pull away the cormlets then replant the mature corm.
The small cormlets are more difficult to overwinter - try using shallow trays filled with dry peat.
Definition of cormlet in US English:
cormlet
nounˈkôrmlət
A small corm growing at the base of a mature corm.
（长于球茎底部的）小球茎
Example sentencesExamples
In order to propagate, lift the corms and gently pull away the cormlets then replant the mature corm.
This involves picking off the cormlets and replanting them elsewhere in the garden.
Here on the west coast, where every wee cormlet left in the ground in the fall sprouts in the spring, home gardeners will empathize with Parkinson.
Take care to remove all the little cormlets too, you may want to keep them to build up your planting stock.
It will take anywhere from 2-5 years for these cormlets to produce a flower.
If mowed earlier than this, the newly forming cormlets (developing on top of the mother corm) will not become large enough to flower next year.
As maturity approaches, the leaves begin to diminish in size, flowering occurs and the cormlets reach maximum size for the season.
The small cormlets can be removed in the spring and planted with the regular corms in a nursery row.
Any small cormlets can also be planted out next year, but these won't flower, but will grow into larger flowering size corms for the following year.
You can dig them up and peel off the cormlets to grow new plants.
Removal of buds in cutting reduced inflorescence number and corm and cormlet yield.
The small cormlets are more difficult to overwinter - try using shallow trays filled with dry peat.
The cultivars do not necessarily grow true from their seeds, though the offset cormlets do grow true to the parent.
Inoculation increased the number of cormlets produced by two of the three varieties, however only one variety produced larger cormlets when inoculated.
Grows satisfactorily from cormlets, because husks of cormlets are very hardy and they sprout very long.
The plants produce numerous cormlets and the flowers are lighter in color with more prominent inrolled staminodes.