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last year i had one grow 2ft over the top of my porch! it was way to awesome!! we are 5a, and my green one came back this year, i winter sowed mine, so i thought that was pretty darned cool!! i will winter sow all of mine from now on!! :'> i'm on the hunt for the black one now!! **big smile** ~Medo
and i coverd mine in 2" of soil when i planted mine, and they did just great. someone told me that if they float they were no good. mine all floated, guess what?? all 12 of them germinated. in the winter, i had 12 castor beans growing in the house as a homeschool project!! Crazy!!! LOL
I started my castor beans in doors and they came up fast. I lost a few thru the weeks of wet rainy rainy (did I mention raily?) weather, but the rest are doing great. I have 3 on my deck in large pots and they look awsome! They're around 8 feet tall. Then I planted 3 down on the border of one of my perennial beds, and they are nearly 10 feet tall. Haven't seen any "beans" or seeds, just weird 'flowers' and fuzzy things. What do the seeds (beans) look like??
Yeah, I used to buy from T & M but generally the seeds I wanted most seemed to always be non-viable. I believe that of the many things I tried from them only about half ever grew and then got some very poor germination rates. Finally stopped ordering from them.
George
I just purchased some seeds from tradewindsfruit.com . I read up on it and it seems to be tough to grow from seeds or from cuttings as they tend to rot before sprouting or sprouting roots. If I don't have luck with the seeds, I may get a small tree that's already started.
Here is a link that might be useful: Planting and Care of Bay
Yes, that could help, but also ask if they are growing more than one kind of peach - the cross pollination factor again. And I should have said planted in pairs or they won't set fruit, not won't bloom - the fingers on my keyboard don't always have a clear connection to my mind :)
Dry the pit out for a week or longer, put it in a moist/wet paper towel, put it in a plastic baggie, seal it good, put it in the refrigerator...wait until Feb/March and you'll have seedlings.
Source: me...i've done this for a few years now. Just remember they aren't going to fruit for a few years.
just sow them in the dirt, i would add compost to make it healthier. Sow them before winter, so their dormancy is broken, then in srping, it will grow. Just like the mother plant spreads it;s seeds in fall. I have so many plants, because i never cliped the seed pods off.
What are you doing with the seeds? If not sowing outdoors where mother nature supplies the range of temperatures needed to break down seed coat, break dormancy - Cercis: nick seed, pour hot water over and soak 24 hrs, sow 2-3 months @ 40F, move to 70ºF for germination in addtional 30-90 days.
Photo here that shows both the seed leaves and first true leaves.
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The seedlings are very easy to recognize. Even the first tiny leaves are the typical heart shape and in medium to bright light almost always show significant reddish tints on the leaf and petioles. They form a tap root at a very early age so that a 4" tall seedling may often have a 8-10" deep tap root making them a real PITA to remove if you don't catch them early. If you have a redbud tree anywhere in the area, unless you are in a very arid region you will have hundreds of seedlings up to 100 yards or more from the tree.
George
Depends on the variety, but most hosta set at least some seed. Some of them set millions of seeds per plant and become a nuisance in the garden unless the bloom stalks are removed before the seed ripens. After the bloom fades the pods will form. Generally these are elongate pods shaped like a tiny cucumber and any size from about 3/4 inch to nearly 2 inch long. When they ripen, they become dry and brittle and split easily. The seeds are dark but surrounded by membraneous wings so that they appear much bigger than they really are somewhat like ash tree seeds. I simply sow these in a protected place very shallow in the fall and wait for the seedlings in the spring. Nearly always high germination percentages.
George
Here you go I hope this helps you. Just keep in mind that if your plant is a hybrid then it will not be true to seed. You may get something entirely different or you may get something close to what you planted, that just depends on how many variations were used to create the existing plant.
Oh and I found this link by searching lisianthus plant.
Here is a link that might be useful: lisianthus
WOW!! this is a bit interesting!! i would plant it and see what the heck it is!! **big smile**
the pit came from inside a peach?? so wonder if it was a vining peach? i have seen the adds for them. i wanted them but had not gotten them yet. they do freeze some fruits to keep them "fresh". uhhh hate that. its not fresh at all. ~medo
I have taken a paper towel and wet it and fold it several times to where it is the size that would fit in a baggie. You want the paper towel moist but not dripping put the seeds in it then place it in a baggie seal it up and place it in a window or on the counter just somewhere that it want be disturbed. Check it in about a week or so till you see germination has occured then when enough root has formed that you feel comfortable with then transplant it to a small pot as the bulb grows then you may have to bump up the size. Just make sure to keep the papertowel moist during germination.
If you plant seeds from Stella you will certainly not get a plant exactly like Stella. These daylilys are complex hybrids and your results can be all over the map. Although seed from Stella when self pollenated almost always look a lot like Stella, they rarely have the strong reblooming characteristic.
If you want to multiply Stella rapidly, it can be divided up to 3 times in a single season if you give the plants lots of water and fertilize heavily. When I first got, it the year it was released, I went from a small clump to over 200 plants in 2 seasons. I used it to border all my walkways when my garden was on the American Hemerocallis Society National Convention tour in 1990.
George
George