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WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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Sun, Dec 19, 10 at 17:30
| Has anyone been succesful with these. I buy $40.00 of these every Mother's Day. I've got the pots leftover. I would like to WS these.
Anyone WS these. When did you plant?
I saw a post that impatients were hard to WS. |
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RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| I'm no expert but think those would certainly fall under the "tender annuals" category to be WS after the last chance of frost. Hopefully someone will chime in who's had some experience. I Googled the name + propagation from seed and someone on GardenWeb grew them from seed they purchased from Hazzard's. There wasn't any information about how they were grown--greenhouse or WS. They can be grown from seed but just the name suggests tropical to me and I'd be concerned about starting seed too early. |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| Thanks. I understand Impatiens might be best left a Greenhouse. I do have a list of spring sows which will be mostly annuals like Marigold, Zinnia's, Nasturtiums, four o'clock flowers and cosmos. Those I have luck w/DS. |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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ladyrose- I have had luck with my regular impatients reseeding themselves- they don't come up until mid-May at the earliest, so counting back 6 weeks, I guess you could try beginning of April. I actually planted a bed of NG last year early- before the end of April- and ended up with regular impatients sprouted in amongst them. Be aware though if you want to collect seed...From 36 NG plants I collected 1 seed. They were beautiful though!
We did have a very wet winter last year, lots of extra snow in February so that may have helped the imps germinate |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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Beautiful pictures livsauntieshel. Just Gorgeous!
I'm going to give them a try. At least I will post how they grew. |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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Hi,
I grow both under lights inside, and also WS (last year was my first year, with great success!) I haven't been able to get new guinea impatiens to germinate inside. Other types of impatiens no problem but not new guineas. If you want to give them a try, I would definitely do indoors for your zone, not WS, and make sure it's nice and warm. I didn't have a heating mat last year, but might try them again this year since I have one now. My old house was just not warm enough to convince them to get going last year . . . Good luck! |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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Thanks Weebay, but the NG's are sold out from Swallowtail at least the one's I want.
Next Year |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| I grew a few regular walleriana type under lights last year, and even then they took forever to germinate. I used bottom heat, too. I'm going to try some this year too, (inside, under lights) starting early. I might begin in late January, just one tray of them for my hanging baskets. I think they need a fair amount of time and high temp. Karen |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| ladyrose65 - Hazzard's Greenhouse has at least 6 pages of impatiens seeds for sale and they have New Guineas. They're a wholesale company but will accept orders from anyone. The New Guineas are posted on page 6 of their online catalog. I looked at one vivid cherry color and they claim 85%+ germination. |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| Gardenweed you enabling me! You know I'm going to that site! Vrooom....! |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| Enabling...that's what we're here to do (and we do it SO well!) Go ahead and order those seeds...you know you want to! So far this year I've only ordered from Swallowtail but give me a few days... I have SO MANY seeds I harvested myself or traded for, if I just did a single milk jug of each I'd still end up with 150 containers or more...and those are just the perennials. Guess I should stop wasting time posting and start winter sowing. |
RE: WS-- New Guinea Impatiens
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| I've never WSown impatiens, either the walleriana or new guineas. My guess is they'd sprout very late here, waiting for enough heat, then they grow so slowly. My guess is that by the time they're big enough to enjoy, the growing season would be almost over in my zone. I think results would be much better in warmer zones than in cooler ones. Karen |
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