Seeking help with Cyclamen...

[HereSince1628]

So, the place I work had them for sale cheap...after reading a little about them on the web it seems that the beginning of June is actually about the time their season is on its last legs...

So, I am in southern Wisconsin...daytime highs are about to reach the 70's (above the cyclamen's ideal temp).

If you can help, I would like information about how to get the plant to go dormant (as opposed to DEAD). And also information about the conditions for dormancy, duration or dormancy and how to get the plant to break dormancy when daytime temps again fall below 70 (which should be early September in this part of Wisconsin.

Thanks for the bandwidth...

[demnan]

1. I grow them indoors

I don't do anything to make them "go dormanant". I may water them a little less. They are half dead looking now but in the winter when the african violets are blah they are absolutely beautiful. They love to be against a cold window in the winter. I live in Virginia, by the way.

If you have a cool basement that gets good light I'd try them there, just don't expect them to be really pretty until summer is over.

They last a couple of years and then they poop out. Mine are about pooped out now.

[Mr. McD]

2. They should go dormant on there own.

Mine have, they have seeded out and have stoped flowering. I just put them in a shady area until fall. I have had then bloom in summer. I am in So. Cal by the way.:)

[candy]

3. I'm in Massachusetts and I buy them every year----

after Christmas as a colorful houseplant to get me through the winter.

I have multiple flowers until April when they start to diminish and by the end April,no more blossoms.

I let them go dormant one summer, a few years ago,putting them outside in their pots and then brought them inside in September and started watering again. The foliage was very healthy but I only got 1 or 2 flowers total.

It wasn't worth it so I buy a couple every year and just toss them in the spring.