Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods Chat Fall 2012, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
This is to all who got those massive roots of the red canna that jen brought to Holly's Swap.

If you did not notice----the spent flower spikes have these BIG, black seeds in every spent bloom capsule.
These seeds are the size of a large pea.
Do not just cut these spent bloom spikes off and discard them!

My other cannas, I have grown for years, never had any obvious seeds on them.

Jen---I LOVED the blooms on your Canna! I got the last 2 root chunks that no one
else wanted. These are massive growers! The shiny, maroon roots are starting to come
above the ground. I can see them at the base of the plants.
Have you ever tried (just for fun) to grow out these seeds?

Gita