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When the seed will come out of the dry pod, they are ready to plant. Datura is a annual and should be planted early in the season for the best bloom, but they can be started in pots anytime if you don't care if you have enough season left to bloom. Mine are just starting to bloom now. I don't know how long the seed will last as all my seed was collected last year. Germination was very good this year and I will see how it does next year. Al
Just found this link, blackberry lilys are my new favorite and I have a few questions...my flowers have green seedpods where the flowers were and when I cut them open, there are green seeds. This is mid-July...do I need to leave the seedpods be and wait til Autumn or can I plant these green seeds? Thank you for any help you can give me!
thanks for the response!
I googled gladiolus-like and found a page with Cannas that had similar spikey thing.
Here's another page with cannas and it shows the thing I picked off, but the seeds inside when ripe are huge in the picture, and mine are like grains of sand, so I'll throw them out.
Here is a link that might be useful: Canna seed head
Almost all bulbs produce seeds if not dead headed. Some will grow true to the parent,(clivia,agapanthus,dietes,galtonia)but you will have to wait up to five years for the first bloom, so most gardeners will propagate from divisions instead. Al
Chris, here is a thread about mango from seed from the Tropicals forum...You may find some tips there.
Here is a link that might be useful: GW Tropicals Forum, mango
The leaf doesn't look right for speckled alder (alnus rugosa). If you can identify your shrub, someone here should be able to help you with the sowing suggestions.
Name That Plant Forum is helpful...
Here is a link that might be useful: 
Well, mine don't. Snapdragons are a royal pain, but I love them. They are a fall/winter flower here.
How much light are they getting? Too little will make them spindly and too much dries them up. Try spraying them with kelp & see if that helps. Also, if you have them in starter mix, they need food. I use fish emulsion.
Hope this helps.
This was my 1st year growing snapdragons from seed. I wintersowed them and the they were the 1st to sprout and the 1st to bloom. They have been blooming for 2 months now and they are beautiful! Try wintersowing them! It really works great and they are strong seedlings!
Prunus persica (Peach tree) is only hardy to about zone 7, so not much chance outside in Ohio. I don't know about this species, but most Prunus require several months cold stratification, and often several months warm stratification first.
Your best bet is to sow now and leave the pot outside to expect germination in spring. Before you sow, clean the seed thoroughly, then soak overnight in fresh water to remove all traces of the pulp.
That isn't quite right about the grove locations. The Methuselah tree and other Great Basin bristlecones are Pinus longaeva, which are found in Nevada and Utah too. The Foxtail pine is the rarer of the three bristlecone types, with it only in CA (Klamath and E. Sierra).
Kudos to anyone who can germinate and grow P. longeva, they apparently prefer limestone soils and little humidity after germination.
Read through this FAQ from the tomato forum.
Here is a link that might be useful: FAQ - tomatoes from seed
Hi, I have a greenhouse and cold frames. The greenhouse is made of polycarbon material. It gets hot in the greenhouse in early spring during the day but, it gets too cold at night to get a good germinaion rate and sometimes I loose entire plug trays because of one cold night.
My cold frames are made of two by twelves and are 4' X6'. I lined each cold frame with weed mat then filled them with mulch then cow manure then topsoil. I used large old windows to cover the frames and hinged them on one side. The temperature in the frames is much warmer. The sides are tightly closed with only a small gap for ventilation. During the day the temperature goes above 120 degrees so I open the windows using a 2 x 4 to prop it open just enough to ge the temperature I want. I only open them completly when it is above 80 degrees because I grow watermelons in them and I live in a cool northern state; zone 3-4
That sounds like a nice setup, lunnarbelle. What keeps the cold frames warm at night -- is it the rotting cow manure? Do you have a picture of the frames?
mandolls, thanks for the references to Dan Staley (dan_staley here on GardenWeb). Looks like he's got some good setups. Some are similar to the one Al suggests.
Trudi, I was hoping to sow in place, but winter sowing in vented containers might be a good bet.
Hi, I have an enormous perennial garden. It is about twenty feet wide by forty feet long. At first I just thew in a few packages of perennial seed mix in the extra large package from the local department store. The first few years the garden was spectacular. The soil in my yard is very alkaline becuase I have a pond and I live near a lake. I have planted many perennials over the past six years and have had some die off because of the soil. I am now tryng to amend the soil with aluminum sulfate and other fertilizers that prevent weed growth and encourage my chosen perennial growth. It's a science. Since fertilizing and testing the soil, I have had better luck maintaining the already existing plants in my garden. Seed sowing in the spring before weed emergence is key, I think. You are in a great zone for perennials and can choose from many varieties. Large clumping varieties do best in perennial gardens. The help to control weed growth. I have many clumping varieties such as delphiniums, foxglove, lupine,veronica, bee balm, just to name a few. I have lots of peonies in my perennial garden, they fair better than roses in my zone and die back to the ground every year.Perennials are old friends that always come back each year no matter what!
teagan - yes. You can't mix Weed & Feed w/ grass seed. *heavy sigh* - it was a "life lesson", I guess, but it threw me off an entire season.
Ilsa
Actually I a somewhat new to this growing my own lawn thing mysel and have huge prblems with weeds. A month ago I put don weed and feed at the same time as putting down new seed (all scotts brand) and here I am a month later with all kinds of new pretty grass coming up everywhere and no new weeds coming up. I pulled the majority of the weeds out first and then carefully selectivly sprayed the foxtails and crabgrass with roundup. So far this has worked for me so don't give up. Make sure the soil is always some what moist and your grass seed will still grow.