Commercial Floriculture

Storage of corms

• Storage of corms at low temperature (4-5^oC) is an established commercial practice.
• It serves three main purposes:

  1. It helps to break dormancy of corms raised under warmer climates,
  2. It helps to overcome warm and dry conditions of summer months that intervene between lifting or corms and their planting in the subsequent season, and
  3. It prevents premature sprouting of corms.