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If you are going to use the fridge, I would recommending doing it the way I did on my webpage:
1. Leave it *outside* all Spring, Summer and Autumn until Late October or Early November..(until night-time temps start falling below freezing on a regular basis)
That "step 1" is, by far, the most important step for dormancy! and a step that cant be skipped..
you cant grow a plant indoors and *then* put it in the fridge..that wont work, because the plant wont be dormant!
I have said it many times, and I will say it again:
Please remember that the fridge does not cause or create the dormancy!
it merely maintains the dormancy that was already created naturally outdoors..
The plant must be dormant before it goes in the fridge! which is why it needs to be grown outdoors.
2. Take the plant out of its water tray a week or so before going in the fridge, to let the media dry out slightly..
you want it just slightly damp all winter, but not soaking wet..
3. If using the fridge, I would just cut off all the leaves completely, and bag up the pot tight in an air-tight plastic bag.
because in the fridge, it will be cold enough (about 35 degrees F) that the plant will not be growing, at all..
and it will be dark..so the plant will have no need of its leaves..
and being bagged up, it wont lose moisture..(my plants stay bagged up for 5 months! they dont dry out)
You *could* in theory put it in the fridge without bagging it, leaving it in its water tray, and not cutting off any leaves..
In theory, that would allow the remaining leaves to give the plant a "head start" in the spring, since it will already have
leaves on it, rather than needing to grow new leaves..
While that could work, IMO its not really worth trying, unless you only have one or two plants..
IMO the "cut off the leaves and bag them up" method is a lot more convenient, because you dont
really need to monitor the plants at all, all winter..
I have a second section about "the fridge method" later on my webpages..
technique is the same, but I am no longer using a fridge specifically:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/CP/page5c.html
Scot