Propagation: first attempt at growing hibiscus from seed, 0 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Mike... Your T-Reds sure are lookign might good there. They coming up and along real nice. LOL. Won't be long before wil be wonderign if your growing marijuana . Hahahahahhahahaha. They sure happy . : ) Hope they keep growing big and strong.

I started some Hollyhocks a few weeks ago of the Peaches adn Dream and then when I transplante d them did a batch of the AppleBloosom, which I just moved from 288 piece s of seedling trays cut cup into 6 packs. I have people save me their empty six packs , especially at Pansie season and I brign them home and give a soap bath , then a chlorine bath and us e them.

I waited the ten days and yesterday they got first tiny drink of a weak Miracle grow and are starting to get settled. They wil stay in the 6 packs til I see the roots starting to fill out the pot then they wil spend the winter in one or two gallon pots to get a good winter chill. If they don't get a winter chill they won't bloom. We had a pretty mild winter here last year and while mine looked pretty rough through the winter they never totally went to sleep, but we got some last cold blast and frost and the hail strom which was enough to trigger them to bloom this spring/summer.

LOL... I have to start stuf f in trays and pots. The property here is liek the inside of the bottom area of a " U " . If I sow in the ground then when we get rains everythign floods and moves and slides and my seeds then disappear. had the one year the guy up behind me on the corner of his property had his daffodils travel down through and acros s my place. It can pretty bad here during hurricane season.

If you transplanted the Hibiscus back then, it shoudl have coem out of shock by now. Have you checke d the root s lately? Tip the pot and take a look at what's goign on. Other than that, I would give, a bit of epsom salt, trim of f anythign that looks bad and give a coffee cup size of miracle grow every two weeks.

Only other thing I can think of which I learne d the hard way with a bunch od Delpiniums I had transplanted that just about totally croaked was when I had transplante d them, I had transplanted to deep. I didn't think it was but the plants sure did. I had to go and fidn out what the problem was with my plants and then had to go through and re transpant them all , gently scouping some of the soil back of f the stem where I had it to deep so the plant coukld breath again and not have to struggle to try and get it's leaves up from the crown.

You might give that a try, tip them out, wash a bit of soil from the crown and repot up again with the crown closer to the surface and then water in good and start fertilizing. I had a lot of trouble when I first started doing perennials and woodies cuz of transplantign to deep. Annuals ya can just about totally bury and they wil do fine but not these guys.

I am having trouble tryign to figur e out the beveled edge part. ?????? About how far do I come in and can I use a roater to do that, or wil I need another type tool? Also, is there an easy way to hold the wood down to make that cut and not cut yourself? I don't have a whole lot of upper arm strength to try and hold a piece of wood and a tool at the same time. : (

I'll send ya Peaches and Dream seeds and when my seedlings get big enough will send ya a couple of them too if yours don't make it.

Kim.... If you can help us out with the Formosian lilies, I'd appreciate it too.

Janet... If you happen to get some seeds of f your yellow one. Would ya like to maybe make a trade for a couple whenever they get ready?

Has anybody ever seen Hibiscus seeds with little hole s in them? A friend sent some of her seed she had gathered. Alot of them had little tiny hole s in them. I don't know if that the way this particular cultivar of which I have no I idea of the name is suppose d to be or if the seeds are no good? I thought it might be a bug, but the holes are so perect in almost all the seeds, I not sure and it has me puzzled since I have no seen alot of varieite s of Hibiscus seed.

Pic of my Peaches and Dream seedlings.