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Comments (3)Here we go again. How expensive are seeds? If you have hybrid marigolds, the seeds will either be sterile, or the seedlings will revert to the parent plants, which are each different from their offspring, the hybrid. Have you ever seen native marigolds in Mexico? They look like weeds. IF the seed are fertile, which is unlikely, some plants will look like the "daddy" plant and some will look like the "mother" plant. A very high percentage of horticultural plants today are hybridized. If you have never read anything about the phenomenon of hybrid vigor, it's easy to find on a search engine and very enlightening....See MoreCollecting Seed Pods of Asclepias Physocarpa
Comments (17)Susan and Mary, Great news on your physocarpa. After reading your post, Susan, I have got to go out and bring in the pods left on the plant before tonight. It is cool and drizzly here this morning, a really gray day. I've got some seed I need to bag up to stratify. Keep looking for variegata seeds, and there just isn't any. The last two plants are in pots in the ground, but I read that the gophers will actually come up above the ground and eat something they like. I will be putting in half inch hardware cloth under the plants and around them this winter so to make a bed to protect them. Purchased Castor Bean seeds, and have treated the soil with castor oil. This has kept the gophers out of the tuberosa so far. Mary, like you, I love the tuberosa. I especially love the "Hello Yellow". The leaves are heartier than the orange. I find eggs on the plants in the spring. It seems I am finding lots to do this season. I have collected seeds from different plants and have been trading and sharing them. It was a good season for plants to put on seeds. I also am cleaning out seed pods from the Passiflora incarnata--they are everywhere. Looking at a new portable greenhouse called a "Convertible greenhouse". It works like a car convertible, and looks like something I could handle and store. Haven't taken the step to purchase it yet. That's the news here in BA. Saw butterflies last week in Austin, but didn't get to get out and chase them. Sandy...See MoreCollecting Seeds How Many Do you Collect
Comments (6)That makes me feel so much better! I have a whole bowl of tomato seeds that I saved this year. And I was wondering as I was mushing the tomatoes and setting them to ferment (I had to use two quart jars to allow enough space for them to sink to the bottom)...Just how many seeds do I really need? And since I couldn't come up with a rational sounding answer, I decided to save as many as my furniture surfaces would allow, LOL! My entire living room is full of saucers full of seeds and my bedroom has corn hanging on the wall drying. Is that obsessive or what? I've got enough tomato seeds to supply every person in the county. Which I will probably share a lot of tomato seeds with neighbors and such. I've been trying to talk everybody into growing gardens again. Most of them used to grow a garden and they got so busy earning a living they let it go. Now with prices the way they are, I think people are reconsidering the importance of growing their own food supply. So, I've got patty pans, white spaghetti, tomato, cukes, watermelon, hot bananas and such drying all over the house. Steph...See MoreCollecting seed pods
Comments (2)it is said .. when the bottom one opens.. the whole can be taken ... seems i recall some peeps who kept them in sugar water until they matured.. and thats all i know on that ... but it all boils down to.. you gotta do.. what you gotta do ... take notes.. and let us know ken...See Morelindalana 5b Chicago
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