Saffron Indoor
Lifting the corms of saffron after leaf died and storing them at 30 ºC during a variable period of time before forcing flowering at 17 ºC, allowed us to program flowering at will from mid September to mid December. An earlier flowering Can obtain lifting the corms after leaf died for 90% and heat curing the corms at 30 ºC during 20 days. The conditions of this storage were critical as regards to the stage of flower initiation of the corms, the temperature and duration of storage and the composition of the atmosphere. A departure from the optimal conditions resulted in flower abortion and/or a reduction in flower size. The combination of the techniques described allowed us to extend the harvest season of saffron indoor from early September to the end of January, with a saffron spice yield per corm higher than 17 mg. Since the mean duration of the period of flowering for a batch of corms is about  15 days.  The period of flowering could be extended until the end of March but with a smaller spice saffron yield per corm