Propagation: first attempt at growing hibiscus from seed, 1 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Kim.... I have had Canna seed that have taken as long as two months to germinate. Did you score them first. If you didn't you'll be waitign til next year for them to try and germinate.

Soem folks use a piece of sandpaper, finger nail files, nail clippers on them. I got tire dof sanding my nails and finger tips and found that using a pair of dog toe nail clippers works great. You can hold the seed over one of the blades, run it back and forth until you can see a little bit of white, then I soak them for at least hours in hot water, then plant. They need heat, alot of it to germinate. Put them in the pot, put baggy over them and put someplace where they gonna get nice and toasty. If yoru using soil to start them in and not a seed germinating mix, make sure you barely wet the soil or your seeds wil mold before they have a chance to come up. Canna take patienc e to come up, but onc e up they grow liek crazy. Oh and make sure they are barely covered and don't let them dry out. They have to have high humidity with the heat.

Don't giv e up on seed starting. it take s time and sometime s a bit of different ways for things to start. Tre e seeds take forever and usually most of them ya put in a pot in the fall, cover so critters don't get them and forget until next year when the temps get warm enough for them to start.

I been waiting three weeks already on some Delphinium seeds to sprout. Everyday I check to se e if them guys are doign anything, but they being slow, stubborn or both. LOL

Shoot, There been time s when I have had the trials seeds from the big companies and left in the baggies and under the light s for as little as six hour s to long and had them strech and have to start over. It all a case of trying and trying and keep on trying. With every batch of seeds ya fail, ya learn somethign new and what not to do and ya try somethign else , until ya find a trick that works for them.

Everybody has the ways they like. I try my way and when it doesn't work I try somebody elses, and somebody elses til the day I can say BINGO! It's a sprout! LOL

Mike.... Same here! They finally got my car going and then it broke just a bit ago. I have never had a car with airconditing in it before , never really neede d it, but today, even I couldn't take the heat and had a friend put that coolent and such in to charge the air conditioner . Was nic e and cool on the way home and went to go to corner store and now it won't start and all on that side is oil. Some days I can't win for losing. LOL

For the GH, Yes I do have a couple of sides where the sun really comes in the most. All across the back and about halfway on both sides. Jo and Jerald are coming over after church to se e about the car and wil let Jerald read what ya said about how we should do the tires. Jo and Jerald are our age and retired and they tryign to grow plants and want to garden and they don't have room at their place and I do so we help each other.

I am hoping to try and get an early jump on tomatoe plants this year. I'm not sure how warm it has to stay in the Gh for the seedlings. I'll start them in the hous e unde r my light stand and then mov e them out. Hopefully your tire ide a will keep them nice and cosy enough.

That the best little investment I ever made. Built the stand from scap pvc and just had to buy some connectors and the lights. Hopefully your tire idea wil keep them nice and cosy enough.

Tommorrow the first two pink hibiscus pods shoudl be ready to pick and wil send you all soem of them. I know the Luna taking two to thre e weeks to come and are comign up sparatically . I just pick the one s out of seed tray when they get big enough.

I also gonna start sending you out some boxes this week Mike. Gonna start with the bulbs and smaller stuf f first. I gotta get a couple of boxes long enough for your Confederate Rose and such. I got lawn mower box but while it long enough it way to wide. Gonan try the florist shop and se e if they got a box that wil work.

Oh for I forget, do ya check inner tubes for leaks the same way ya check regula r tires with soap and water. Or do they already come blown up? Can ya tell I not mechanically inclined. LOL I one of them folsk that can take somethign apart, but when it come s to puttign it back together, is th e one who always have a dozen screws or parts left over and ha s no idea why. : )

Kim.. Pic is my seed starting rack. I start alot on my kitchen table unde r kitchen light in baggy and then once i see the first sprout they get move d out of baggy on to seed rack and unde r lights. Not enough light on kitchen table and they strech otherwise.