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The seed should be allowed to "ripen" on the plant when they start to "dry" then may pick & store the heads upside down with a paper (etc) to collect any seed that fall. Seed does need at least a 4 week cold period which could be outside or in the vegi keeper.
It depends on which yellow baptisia you are growing. If you have one of the native yellows (i.e. b. spaerocarpa) and your plant is isolated (they cross pollinate easily), your seedlings should be like the plant you gathered the seeds from. Hybrids like Carolina Moonlight (cross between a white and a yellow) will not come true from seed, at least not 100% of the time, although you could find you have some nice plants if you are patient enough to grow them to flowering size.
Well, unfortunately I canÂt do anything about our 80-degree temps during the day, though nights are a bit cooler. Is that whatÂs keeping them from getting any bigger?
They have to be about 8 weeks from germination by now but they are miniscule in sizeÂÂweÂre talking no height to speak of and not even 1 mm (yes, you read that right) wide. Nowhere near big enough to plant out. They are not going dormant, they are just sitting there.
How can I encourage them to grow more?
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/hortiscope/tree/walnut.htm
This link mentions all sorts of things about growing black walnuts. Beware, walnut trees produce a kind of toxin that affects the growth of some other plants. It does not matter if you take the husk off or not. The husk might even help the plants grow.
As long as the nuts are not treated in any way, they should grow from the store. However, they do seem much different from the ones we get off the trees and are newly dried. I did read an account of someone growing them from the store as well as pistacios. (Any pistacio I ever got was dried and salted and often dyed red, so I wondered...)
The nuts should not be too difficult to grow. Around here so many fall to the ground and even seem to be buried by squirrels. However, the squirrels may also dig them up. ;)
Not to discourage you from asking questions anywhere but you may find more detailed infomation on the "growing under lights" forum. That forum is geared more toward special growing lights than the "grow under shop lights" like I do. Good luck and grow lots of giant, healthy plants!
Leave the pod on the plant till it is "dry' & the pod starts to split
Hi Georgez5il,
Thank you so much for your reply and it seems that you are quite the expert as so indicated on your page. I have taken the liberty to send you an e-mail.
God bless..............
-Billsa65