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| The grower sent plants of garish yellow rudbeckia instead of Moroccan Sun Mix, which I didn't know till they bloomed. (All I got was "Oops, sorry" and a refund.) I do have a packet of seeds. Can I start them now?
(Also have delphiniums and foxglove.) I was planning to start them outdoors in pots, to avoid their being overwhelmed by other larger plants. Is this the way to do it? In sun/part sun or under a tree? How about Tomato Soup Echinacea? Avant Gardens warns that these plants come from tissue cultures and grow slowly, so I wonder if seeds are likely to come true? Sorry for the barrage of questions. Usually I'm spent from spring planting, but this year I'm going for fall crops too. |
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| Yes, you can start them now from seed, anytime between now and about early Sept. I personally would say morning sun and afternoon shade to avoid the soil baking on hot days and drying out too much, but I'm not home on the weekdays to tend to them. Pots/trays/cell packs all would work. As far as coming true to seed, hard to say. Genetics is always a mystery to me. Many things come close to the parent, in my experience, not necessarily exactly the same but similar. Every once in a while, something is radically different in some way, but that has been the rare exception in my experience. |
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| Thank you for the reassurance, denninmi. I'll give them a shot. |
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