Desperate for Answer About Planting Begonias!

[kimld]

Help! I'm really desperate for an answer about planting begonia bulbs! Bought some today and they have a large depression on one side and little pointed things on the other side. Can't tell which way is up and which is down! Nothing on directions, and in some cases I can see neither a large white depression nor little red pointed things.

If someone could help me ASAP it would be most appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[mommytotwo]

The pointy side would go up. But professionals say that if you don't know which is up and which is down, then just plant it sideways and the top will make its way up eventually.

 

[LAinSEA]

My MIL always laid the tubers on their sides and started them in the house in swallow alluminum pans with damp (not wet) peat moss. Once they sprouted and got 3 inches tall, she would plant them in her large terracotta pots where they stayed for the summer.

In the fall, after the first frost, she would pull the pots in the garage and wait for them to dry out and dig out the tubers and store them in a plastic bag with more peat moss. I believe she used the same tubers, and production of more from them, for nearly 20 years. I've been doing the same process now for my FIL since she died 12 years ago - but he won't give up the tubers. Maybe, eventually, I'll inherit them.

-Laurie