If you plant seeds from Stella you will certainly not get a plant exactly like Stella. These daylilys are complex hybrids and your results can be all over the map. Although seed from Stella when self pollenated almost always look a lot like Stella, they rarely have the strong reblooming characteristic. If you want to multiply Stella rapidly, it can be divided up to 3 times in a single season if you give the plants lots of water and fertilize heavily. When I first got, it the year it was released, I went from a small clump to over 200 plants in 2 seasons. I used it to border all my walkways when my garden was on the American Hemerocallis Society National Convention tour in 1990. George George

My method is to: 1) wet some paper towels (2 sheets) in water containing about a teaspoon of Daconil (antifungal); 2) squeeze out most of the water, so that the paper towels are damp but not wet; 3) sprinkle out the Sarracenia seeds over the middle of one the towels; 4) put the other damp towel on top of the towel containing the seeds; 5) fold the towels over a couple of times, as if you are folding a regular cloth towel; 6) put the folded paper towels containing seeds in a ziploc bag - label the bag if you need to; 7) throw the ziploc into the fridge, such as in the vegetable keeper, for about a month; 8) take the towels out, unfold, and sprinkle the seeds on top of fairly finely chopped up sphagnum fibers that are sitting on top of 1:1 peat moss/sand (dont cover the seeds)in a 8 inch wide pot which is 9) put the pot in a tray of distilled, reverse osmosis, or rain water - and keep water in the tray at all times- (optional- put it on top of a heat mat); put a piece of saran wrap across the top of the pot and hold it in place with a rubber band; put the pot/tray in indirect light; once the seeds germinate and form seed leaves (3 to 4 weeks roughly) - move into full sun and remove saran wrap. Germination rates are really high and you will have more plants then you will know what to do with - like me. For example, I have about 60 sarracenia alata 'red throat' 2 year seedlings that I have no idea what to do with. I just started stratifying the following seeds (step 7) about 300 flavas, 150 leukos, 100 moorei, and 100 leuko x gulfensis 'green'.

While I've never grown them myself, Christmas Palms will start themselves if they roll under the mulch after falling off the tree. My neighbor has dozens of volunteers in the ground from his palms. Last week I yanked a Spindle Palm volunteer that was growing up between the bromeliads planted below it. (Don't worry, I didn't toss it out. Saving it for whoever wants it at the Swap-a-Que.) Queens, Robellenii, Washingtonias, all seem to pop up without any help from me. I must have a dozen Licuala spinosa from seeds that ripened and fell. And don't get me started on Arecas. I know the nurseries all use specific techniques, depending on the palm. But for home growers, just plain dumb luck seems to be the best route to follow.

Palm seeds have a rather limited period of viability so you need do plant them as soon as possible. I would plant them in a very drained soil (added sand) and keep the soil just slightly moist. I don't cover the top (especially as these palms are not too sensitive to drier air). Bottom heat to about 95 F. will hasten germination but is not even necessary--it'll germinate even at a room temp of 75 F.. If you have too many in your container you can later divide them up into separate containers (just be careful as palm roots tend to be sensitive). Washingtonia is VERY easy from seed. Good luck!