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Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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Sun, May 22, 11 at 21:13
| Just noticed that my pink bleeding heart has seed pods hanging down, How did I miss those in the past??? They are still green and not ready for harvesting, but I am looking for advice from anyone who has tried to grow these from seed. Hard? Easy? Dry and save for next season or plant right away?
Thanks,
Nancy |
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RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| I have a nice bleeding heart that grew from seeds I threw on the ground. I had given up on the jug. :) |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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I never could see them ripen. But I always find seedlings in the garden...some of them even grew across the sidewalk from the mother plants.
Right now I probably have more than 20 Bleeding Heart seedlings by the mother plant. It's an especially prolific year for seedlings of various perennials. |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| I have 3 of these pink bleeding hearts in different locations, but I've never seen a "reseed" off spring in the beds. I am going to watch the seed pods carefully. Hope they are not the kind that "burst" and scatter! |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| I have collected seeds from Bleeding Hearts but only pink ones. You have to be very vigilant in order to get the pods just when the seeds are ready, before they drop. I have tied a little paper bags loosely around the pods in order to collect them. Like the others, I have found 'reseeds' and have used them in other areas of the garden, but again, only pink. I would like to get another white, but perhaps it's a sterile hybrid. I never see ripe pods. I have traded some of my seeds and they germinated (winter sowed). |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| This is good to know. I will definitely look for seed pods this year. I would love more bleeding heart for my gardens. |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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Nancy they will burst and scatter, I have a yard full of them, they do not last long once ripe, keep an eye on them as carefully as you can, the seeds are ripe inside the pod when they are black. If you can get them at the ripe stage just toss the seeds where you want them, they will come up next year. BTW, your hands will turn yellow in spots where you hold the seeds, use a thin glove if you don't want the yellow all over your hands, :)
Alberta |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| Thanks everyone! I am going to go out tomorrow AM and slip that stem of hanging seed pods into an old knee high stocking to make sure I don't lose the seeds with a "burst"!!! I did look at all the pods today Alberta and there is one at the beginning of the stem that has black seeds inside - going to grab that one tomorrow!. I am very psyched, as I have never had the luck others seem to have with reseeds showing up ( I have a million plants that reseed - but not these) Nancy |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| glad I saw this thread - I have a really large bleeding heart - have never seen seedlings and never even thought to look for seed - I will now - thanks for all the neat info ..... Lynne |
RE: Who has collected seeds from Bleeding Heart?
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| I finally was able to collect bleeding heart seeds last summer. Used tulle bags to collect seeds as the pods burst. Based on some advice - I sowed the seeds shortly after harvesting. I collected the standard pink dicentra, white dicentra and dicentra valentine. i only have sprouts from the dicentra valentine. Which is amusing since I was worried that the valentine could have been a sterile hybrid! I'll hold onto the other containers for a while. |
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