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Posted by rainydaywoman_z8 OR (My Page) on Fri, Oct 30, 09 at 0:54
| I would like to have large amounts of some very expensive cannas; the nursery sells seed as well as rhizomes for some. Has anyone grown canna from seed? Info I read sounded like, if I started them way early, I could get flowers this summer.
I'd appreciate your expertise. |
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RE: Growing Cannas from Seed
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| I do grow species Canna from seed which is easy and they bloom the first year. The expensive Cannas now available I only propagate from divisions, and doubt they may be grown as identical plants from saved seed, but I have not tried. Al |
RE: Growing Cannas from Seed
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| sorry, but those 'expensive' cannas are fancy hybrids that won't breed true from seed...tat is IF they set seed. You have to buy plants if you want the expensive fancy ones. Those hybrids are also probably patented plants, meaning you cannot sell any divisions that you. I see no problem as to if it's ok to divide for your own planting, but I'm not sure how american patent laws work. |
RE: Growing Cannas from Seed
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| Calistoga and Origami Master: Kandesky Cannas online, sells tons of different canna that must be patented, and some they have seed for. That is where I was going to buy seed, thinking, obviously, that would a less expensive way to get a lot of gorgeous plants. What do you think? |
RE: Growing Cannas from Seed
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| The purchased seed should work fine. Seed is not a problem if the pollination of the plant producing the seed is controlled. The seed produced in your garden is from a plant produced from a cross and can revert to either parent or anything in between. The purchased seed will be an F1 cross where both parents are known and the resulting seed is predictable, though not as predictable as a plant produced from a vegetative part of a plant with no sex involved. Al |
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