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Your picture piqued my interest, and after some prolong web searches, I have to break it to you that this is a sterile hybrid, and there are no seeds available. This is the flower Lynchnis coronia 'Gardner's World' and is illegal to propagate, so you have to buy the plant instead. I've only been able to find sellers based in the UK, but maybe there's some in your area that might carry them. Maybe somebody on Dave's Garden website has them on offer.
I found these today. Anyone use them?
Here is a link that might be useful: quad thick trays
I had that problem too. Finally I just ordered triple amount of flats from on-line supplier and tripled them up. The cost is more at first, but I am so happy I finally did that. 3 trays stacked together makes them sturdy enough that I can move them back and forth without worry. The sun does make them brittle, and after awhile cracks right in the middle started to form, but so far they are still holding up great.
I'm not nearly coordinated enough to maneuver two full trays at once without accidently dropping one!
I cannot find Zizia aptera plant anywhere except Prairie Moon Nursery, which is closed for the season.
The germination process for this plant is long and laborious -- involving stratification in sterile sand.
Furthermore, the seeds are miniscule.
If anyone has extra plants I would be interested in discussing with you buying several of them.
Thanks.
I have started Zizia aurea from seed (received in a trade and then winter sown), got one sprout, and after a couple years it has produced 1 seedling so far.
I received a division of Z aptera in a swap 5 years ago and it has self-sown 5 or 6 small seedlings in the garden, however, that garden bed is now grown up with perennials, so it is difficult to locate and confirm the seedlings. Jock feel free to email me in the fall and I can see if there are extra seedlings.
If you can't find germination info at any of the above, B & T World seeds lists 35,000 seeds and has germination info on many of them.
http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/41278/PDF
There are two other supplements. (Search on Google)
I use that tomato food, too. I put some in a spray bottle at full strength for foliar feeding, too.
Hot peppers usually take two weeks to sprout. My ghost peppers did poorly. Few sprouted and those that did were sickly. My Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers really took off, though.
Mine were eaten last year by deer. I put a fishing line fence around them to no avail.
This year they are inside the fenced vegetable garden and are growing strong - in fact providing shade where shade is not wanted. I am growing the Mammoth kind - 8 feet is the max height.
Interesting plants.
This plant does NOT come true from seed ..Therefore its propagated by cuttings. cuttings may be taken at any time of the year. use firm new growth apply 0.1% IBA (rooting hoormone) stick in well drained soil & mist growing time for 4" pot is 5-7 weeks.
will need 12+ hours to flower.
If this was not your question then be more specific.
Its not a problem to keep using the same soil mix over and over but your going to have to add nutrients to the soil if you do. Every fall/winter, I clean my trays, containers and tools with soap and bleach. Come spring I use whatever cheap soil mix (that wasn't stored outside) I can get my hands on. I add perlite or vermiculite and worm castings to the mix. I've been doing that for a couple of years and its work for me.
I think there is a thread with different methods that might work for you.
No, although you could have a problem with good germination from some seeds if you've had them in your warm garage. It's fine to keep seeds from year to year, depending on which seed, a few types are not good held over under any circumstances and the package will usually say something along the lines of 'short viable'. Onion, parsley, delphinium are examples of seeds you may not want to store...
You asked when to start acquiring new seeds to fill your wish list, and to that I answer Not now, because you will be getting seeds packaged last season, wait until right around the holidays when the new harvest will be available. If you are buying new, you may as well begin with the freshest.
I will agree that this is a great thread. I was a bit discouraged to say the least after my first two searches on this site for Tulip Trees and Royal Empress Paulownia took me to forums that were so off topic one even strayed to the subject of the frivolent use of the term nazi and how it devalued the something or other... wwII... I had to skip 10 pages before I could find something about a tree again. Glad to see not every forum has been turned into some righteous stand against something. I appreciate everyones helpful advice but I will not be using this site as my go-to for info.
I sowed delphinium seeds into the organic seed trays with seed starter mix back in March. I put them just under the surface. They didn't germinate until I bottom watered, top watering wasn't enough to get them going.
They were tough to keep alive, the seedlings were very fragile in comparison with other plants that I started at the same time. They liked support and they didn't like harsh weather, too much wind, rain or sun and they would look sad. After moving them outside in the end of May, they really took off and I got some flowers this week.
I planted a few cultivars and they grew differently, the ones that got big right away have flowered with nice purple and white flowers. It looks like they're dying a little after I moved them into the bed. The leaves are turning yellow on one of the flowering plants and a similar type just totally turned yellow and wilted. These were the biggest at time of moving so maybe their roots got damaged when I removed them from the tray. Also the bed may be too shady. Most of the others are looking great, green and lush. I'll post up some pictures if anyone wants to see what they looked like at germination or how they look now.