ctnchpr's Asclepias variegata Seed recipients
Mary Leek
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Comments (18)Hi ctnchpr, Just curious if your plants set any seed pods this year and if so will any be available? I got a few of last years seed through Jeff but no germination. I was dissappointed as I had seed from others that all(3 each) germinated. I would really like to get some seed pods from your plants as they seem to grow so well. Thanks, Mark (wildflowerman_2000)...See MoreAsclepias variegata(Redring Milkweed Seed)
Comments (19)The thing is..it's not rare (at least in the woods here), but apparently difficult to cultivate in captivity. I had great germination the year Mark sent me some (3 or 4 years ago), however, not a one of them overwintered. But A. perennis, which seems to be easy to grow, did the same behavior..of course drainage in wet springs here can be bad for many plants, so that may be my problem....See MoreAsclepias Variegata
Comments (10)I received seeds from ctnpchr in fall 2007. I winter-sowed them in both 2008 and 2009. Only 1 seed sprouted in Spring 2008. I sowed a lot more but there was no germination this Spring at all. I shared seeds with at least a dozen other GWers in seed trades or SASBE's, mostly in the winter of 2008. Don't know who got germination last year, but nobody got germination this year that I know of. Meanwhile, my one plant came back this year and was growing nicely. However, with weeks of cool, cloudy, and wet weather recently, the slugs are going nuts and the plant has been eaten to a stick! It seems possible that the seeds lose viability quickly, and it is a difficult plant to germinate. I'm thinking about moving it to a drier and more gravelly spot, along with the Asclepias purpurascens, which is also getting eaten by slugs, but not as badly....See MoreWhite Milkweed, 2016
Comments (95)Thanks Mark, I feel a lot more hopeful now. And that's great that it's a repeat bloomer. I've been planting a few native grasses that skippers use as host plants. Some are 3 or 4 ft. tall. I think I've got enough tall ones. debarron, is it wetter in eastern Oklahoma like it is in eastern Texas? Is that the area you live in. For some reason I was thinking you lived in a dry place with sagebrushes growing near your house. Wish I could send you my Blue Flag Iris. She's not getting enough sun and moisture up here. I don't have any low spots that collect rain anywhere. Are you able to grow Bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes where you are? I'm so happy I was once in Texas when all those wildflowers were blooming. It puts Illinois to shame. Teasle and Poison Hemlock seem to be our most abundant roadside wildflowers. They have been spraying the Teasle (not very thuroughly) and leaving the Hemlock, which in time might overtake the teasle because it's taller. There are an awful lot of common milkweeds all over the place. And a few small colonies of A. sullivantii, but here you never see tuberosa or incarnata growing in the wild, only in gardens. All the other species that are supposed to be native to this area I've never seen. William, I was just reading that kn annual zones Calotropis gigantea grows faster than C. procera. I would like a really tall tree type plant so I'm planning on growing both. One for the size, and the other for its fragrance. Germination can be as long as 3 or 4 months, so I"m going to start the process 6 months before planting outdoors, because nice sized plants will give me a better chance of them getting tree-like....See MoreMark (wildflowerman_2000) Rose
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