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It will get around a foot to a foot and a half high the first year. I don't know about Illinois, but in my zone, it dies back in the winter and comes up again the next year to make 3 foot flower spikes on foot high plants, then will die for good the second fall.
Maybe ask this ebay seller.
Now thats something I have to go out and buy. I don't have a torch lilly yet!
Here is a link that might be useful: ebay selling torch lily seeds
The fruit containing the seed should ripen and turn orange and mushy. The seeds are miniscule. I have seedling from Daisy with the pollen parent being either Mystery or Radicans. I planted them in autumn in a pot sat out and the seedlings sprouted mid-july.
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i have a question on growing gardenia from seed. I am trying to bid on a pack of 10 gardenia seeds(Chuck hayes,hardy gardenia) from Ebay, i was wondering is it worth the effort, are Gardenias tough to germinate. is it better to buy the plant? please let me know. thanks for your time. malini.
How about a MANGO There is that hard shell thing/pit in the center with the flesh adheared to it...if I wanted to grow one from........seed how or what do I do THANK YOU. YOU may email me as I never know how quickly a response it give in this site..I asked question a while back and it was a month before I saw a response..I had forgot about asking by then. js4jc2day@hotmail.com
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I've never heard of crapes being propagated by root cuttings, so I can't help you with that one. But stem cuttings shouldn't be too difficult for you.
There are many ways to do this successfully. I'll explain it simply, but you should do some reading to get more background. Others will have their favorite method, too.
Take the cuttings from the newest growth, remove any flowers and/or seed pods. Take the cuttings with clean, sharp by-pass pruners (scissors action) so that the cuts are not smashed. They shouldn't be more than 6 inches long. Remove about 3/4 of the leaves (from the bottom of the cuttings) and stick into a very coarse, fast draining peat based potting medium with extra perlite added for porosity. You can use anything that allows you to insert the cuttings at least two inches deep, but don't use a container that is overly huge or one that does not drain. I typically use a plastic flat like the ones that bedding plant cell packs are carried in, or even into cell packs.
Keep the cuttings moist, located in a shady location outside. They won't like the dry air inside. Do NOT keep checking your cuttings as you will destroy any fragile new roots that may be forming. I wouldn't touch them for about a month. If you feel resistance when you tug very gently after that amount of time, your cuttings have rooted. Leave them alone for several more weeks so that a proper root system can be developed, and then you can repot into slightly larger containers.
Thank you rhizo. I am trying that right now. If all else fails, I'm going to cut the tree down myself. It's about 25 feet tall. Then I'll dig up the root ball and bring it to my yard and try planting the entire thing. At least I'll have it here, if it's going to re-grow. It's the only thing else I know to do. We'll see what happens. Thank you for all your help. I truly appreciate it.
Schelle
I don't know how these will do in your climate (recommended zone range is 3-9 generally), but I do know they are fairly specific in what they require for germination. Warm moist, cold moist, cool moist, in that order.
Impervious seed coats. Shake in dry sharp sand or nick carefully with a file. Sow at 64-71ºF for 2-4 wks, move to 24-39ºF for 4-6 wks, move to 41-53ºF for germination which may be erratic (meaning not all the seedlings will appear at the same time)
Easy way to do them is put them in a tiny zip lock with just a tsp or two of sterile moist vermiculite or sterile moist sand, leave them on your desk. Date the bag. Then move the bag to your refrigerator (not freezer) and date again. If your temperatures by the end of the second period are close to 50, or an average day/night of 50 in Fall to Winter, take your bag of seeds and sow the contents, vermiculite and all, place outdoors. (I have a problem achieving that 50ish temp indoors and depend on Mother Nature here).
Hi Carol,
Wait until the pods dry, i.e turn tan color. They will split on their own and expose rows of thin black seeds. It may be a good idea to wrap each pod with a square of nylon to prevent bugs from tunneling through the pods and the rows of seeds. I don't know if this will work, but it's worth a try.
Good luck
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I love Yucca too, especially the bluish green with curly threads and the green and yellow stripes.
Here is a link that might be useful: Yucca seeds
Tania, I looked for photos of sugar cane mulch in place in a garden (not something I would find in this part of the world :))
and it seems to be a shredded product. First, your seeds will not germinate under it, and second, I don't think you could keep seeds moist enough to germinate on top of it.
One of the purposes of any mulch is to keep weed seeds from germinating, and the mulch won't know a good seed from weed.
You would do better pulling the mulch back where you want to sow the seeds, pushing it back into place when the seedlings have gained a little size, or sowing your annuals in pots and transplanting them.
I also am in zone 5. I'm in Adrian Michigan & I have had good luck with liatrus when I winter-sowed it. (Winter Sowing Forum explains). But it didn't bloom the first year and was very small. I almost forgot that I had it in my garden until this yr. and it's blooming it's head off, looking very healthy. My friends say that when you have larkspur in the garden, you will always have it since it's a rampant self-sower. I find that with cone flower it's slow going with any method, so I just let it reseed usually. Happy Gardening.
Carol
I would suggest the electric heater and a "green house" to keep the warmth around the plants. There are a variety of ways you can create your own green house. I have used large cake containers (like they sell b-day cakes in at the grocery store). I have also used plastic sheeting to enclose a complete shelf (above, below and both sides) on my plant stand. I have not used an electric heater so I am not sure about the temps this would create but you have plenty of time to experiment before spring sowing.
Bonny
Let's make sure we're talking about the same tree because our more commonly seen monkey puzzle here in the PNW, araucaria araucana, isn't difficult at all.
The seeds do take about 18 months to ripen on the tree, but germinate in 30-60 days at room temperature. Sow point down, just pushed into the soil about the depth of the seed (wide end just at the surface). My neighbor sowed seeds one each to a houseplant pot for no fuss germination although some seeds did take closer to 4 months than one or two.
And be careful here, because these get enormous in our climate in fairly short order - they take up a lot of space and are painful to brush up against when mowing or gardening. I think you either love 'em, or hate 'em - not that it matters but they are not my favorite landscape tree :)