john_ny

I read something, a long time ago, where someone had done something like this with some flower bulbs, probably tulips. I didn't pay too much attention, as I had no plans to try to replicate it, but here's what I remember. The idea was to try to get flowers that were half one color, and half another, or striped ones. They took 2 different colred bulbs, say a red, and a yellow, and cut each one in half, vertically. Then they placed the cut side of a yellow against the cut side of the red and tied them up.
Supposedly, this produced what they wanted but, I would think, the cut would have to be very precise, exactly through the center of the growing tip, or you'd get solid color flowers, one or the other. And it's my guess (and only a guess) that any bulblets formed ( like the pups from a banana corm) would be either red or yellow, depending on which side they formed.

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John