A while back (January) I posted my concerns about my larches. For a larch’s standards, I didn’t know if I would be able to provide them a sufficient winter in our warm zone 9 winters (we got down to 36F). I brought it out of the basement stairwell on 3/21, let it grow until 9/21, when I brought back into the stairwell. Every few days I cover the soil in freezer ice so the soil stays cold. Within 2 weeks I noticed fall colors starting, despite the constant temperature being around 50F.
Hopefully they stay dormant until at least the beginning of March.
by glacierosion
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Genius! Dod you come up with this yourself or have you seen this method?
I was frantically looking for a cold and easy place to put them
https://preview.redd.it/n6z00gbl7sxf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d6c1f1d263977478db389399f60f1726ee7889b
After getting them into dormancy, you can keep them in the refrigerator.
It might just be poor image quality, but they look like they might be dead to me.
I think it’s going to be difficult to get them the necessary number of cold hours. They might live for a few years even, but a better long term solution will be needed. A fridge could work, but it’s also easy to desiccate them in a fridge.