Question about growing poppies from seed
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Comments (0)I planted a few Jack in the Pulpit seeds this spring, including three in a pot. They've all gone dormant, which I'm guessing is normal since they all did it at the same time. I dug up the bulbs in the pot just to have a look: I understand it will take several years for them to bloom, but for the ones in the pot, I was wondering if I could speed things along by putting them in the fridge for an artificial winter, and maybe getting two growing cycles per year. If so, my two questions are: 1) How long would the artificial winter have to be at refrigerator temperature? 2) Would I have to give them supplemental light this fall/winter to grow them inside, so they perceive the daylength as longer? I'm in zone 6, Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, which is where the seeds were gathered. This message is also posted at the Woodland forum. Alex...See MoreQuestion about Angels choir poppy seeds
Comments (2)I don't know about Angels Choir, but I've been saving seed of another mix of Shirley poppies for the last couple of years and their seeds seem to vary in color somewhat. Some are more brownish and others are more grayish. I wouldn't be at all surprised if your brown seeds are mature, especially if the pod was from a plant with a slightly different colored flower....See MoreQuestion about growing from seed
Comments (1)It depends a lot on whether or not the hips were ripe in the first place. If they were from blooms early in the season and were orange, yellow or red before they froze they were probably ripe. If they were recent blooms from the fall and still green they were not ripe enough. It takes at least 90 days for a hip to ripen. Freezing the seed over the winter shouldn't make a difference if they are ripe. That's how nature does it. You can try some and see what happens....See MoreQuestion about growing from seed in small greenhouse
Comments (6)Dave is right. Greenhouse can mean a lot of different things. Like I have four of the mini-greenhouses- the four shelf things with removable covers. Depending on what time of year it is, they get used as shelves for seed starting or to hold wintersown jugs outside- or more like coldframes with the covers on outside to help with hardening off plants. In the past, I have occasionally used a mini-greenhouse in my solarium with the cover on and hot water jugs in the bottom to overnight tomatoes and peppers if the solarium was supposed to get too chill for them. That might be closer to what you are doing. But without a proper heat mat, I wouldn't try using the mini-greenhouse as a home to start seedlings....See Morekudzu9
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