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Love-lies-bleeding - self-seed same summer?
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Posted by sanderling Zone 5a/Ontario (My Page) on Wed, Sep 9, 09 at 0:47
| Hi all,
I got some love-lies-bleeding back in late spring that, because we were moving in early summer, I just planted in pots for about a month. They weren't crazy about the pots, and never took off. When we reached our new house I put them in the ground, and they did okay, surviving for a bit, but then seemed to fizzle out. The original flower "tails" looked like they'd dried, possibly after having set seed.
A couple of weeks later I noticed that the plants had reinvigorated themselves, and were branching out and putting out new blooms. However, of more interest to me was that right beside them (RIGHT beside them), and nowhere else in the garden, I was starting to see Amaranthus-like plants beginning to come up. They have pink bases to the stems (green further up), and pink edging to the leaves and the wounds/holes in the leaves.
Will love-lies-bleeding grow from seed set within the same summer? I wouldn't have expected any self-sown plants till next spring. Or could these be a wild Amaranthus, eg Green Pigweed, that just coincidentally came up beside my love-lies-bleeding when I hadn't weeded for a bit?
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RE: Love-lies-bleeding - self-seed same summer?
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| Assuming that your original plant was not a hybrid, any seeds from it (and it's entirely possible. Amaranths are very prolific.), should look like the original plant. Now, sometimes seedlings have to grow on a bit to take on their "adult" characteristics, but still, it should look like the original, at least eventually. Keep an eye on it. If you want to, you can even let it bloom, but if it's not like your original plant, I would pull it before it gets a chance to make seed. Since the original got going later on, it should make (more) seed before the end of the season. |
RE: Love-lies-bleeding - self-seed same summer?
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| Thanks, donnabaskets! I ended up waiting till the end of the season to see what it ended up doing, and the plants started putting out pink flower spikes. I was surprised that the original plant would set seed and regrow halfway through the season, but that appears to be what it did! Here're the plants in question, the day after our first frost (I didn't think to get a photo before the frost hit them). 
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