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Annual bedding zonal geraniums

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Posted by karan_in_oregon Zone 8 Oregon (My Page) on
Wed, Dec 21, 11 at 14:19

Has anyone WS zonal geraniums in the Portland Oregon area?
When did you sow the seeds and would you do it again?
Do they need to be started in a warm area - in the house - to be big enough to bloom this coming summer?
Thank you for any help - these are things my daughter is asking me : ) I guess it doesn't need to be Portland, but anywhere. Thank you from someone who wasn't going to WS this year but has a refrigerator drawer full of seeds and happens to have a dozen or so big OceanSpray bottles and a bag of soil in the kitchen : )

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RE: Annual bedding zonal geraniums

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Zonal Geraniums, Pelargonium x hortorum, by definition, are not grown from seed. They are largely produced from cuttings, although some are done with tissue culture. The bedding plants sold in nurseries have historically been zonals, grown from cuttings, although there have been great strides in developing seed Geraniums (Pelargoniums) which yield larger plants with sturdier petals than traditional seed-grown samples.

Seed-grown Pelargoniums don't require WS, but generally won't be bothered by it either. They'll just sit there until the medium warms to ~75°F, before they germinate.

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