Canna Patens

I grew this from seed, from Karcheskey Canna, it was very easy to grow.

Sure is pretty Sue and it looks like some seed pods are forming for you. I love growing cannas from seed. Usually, I give them all away though.

I hope to do a ton from seed next year,I like this one,does it hold this pattern throughout?Looks like a little yellow tongue sticking out!LOL!

Yes the color is vivid and has been blooming since the last week of June. I hope to get lots of seeds and I will save some for both of you if you would like to try these.

Cute and dainty flowers for a canna - and about 18" tall. It looks great next to a water feature. Here is another view of the pods.

Thanks Sue, that would be great. I'll try to find something around here that you might be interested in too.

Very pretty , Sue!

Hi Sue,
Glad to see 'patens' did so well for you (o:
Great phpto. too!!
I love growing this little beauty, too (o:
Alice

Sue,
........Aren't they just too cute and pretty? I have some from Alice's seeds also , just started blooming last week. Can hardly wait until the other types bloom.
............ This is just neat ! So easy to grow and get big beautiful floiage and pretty flowers.

I am always awed and humbled in the canna that comes from that one little seed (o:
Most cannas from seed bloom first season, too.

I have this same canna also. It was sent to me by a trader in Brazil. He called it Canna limbata. It forms seeds very easily. It stays small in a container but grows much taller when planted in the ground.

Here's another picture of it:

This one is so bright. I love it. Great pictures Sue and Clare.

How do you plant canna seeds & how long will it take that little seed to grow into a blooming size plant? Thanks for any help.

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Christmas - All I did was soak them for 48 hours in water in February. I grew them on in my greenhouse (your kitchen window would should be sufficient if you don't have a GH) and then in April I planted them out and they grew like gangbusters.

Thank you,Sue!!

Sue, thank you, thank you. I got the seeds today. Can't wait for late winter so I can plant them.

Do Canna's hold true to seed? Thanks

Hi Christmascactus, the canna limbata came up really quickly for me and bloomed in the same year.

Fivelabs, from what I understand, they do not come true to the parent plant, but the Canna limbata seems to come true or pretty close.

Clare & Sue both your cannas are so pretty.
I'm going to have to try growing some from seeds.

Sue, I would love to try seeds too, I am just getting into tropicals and am mostly a lurker here trying to learn as much as I can reading the posts and some recent books I bought. Just ordered from the canna co-op too, they are new to me as well!

Watch your mailbox Sue!

Does anyone have any canna seeds for trade?

Christmascactus - I have more pods getting ready - I can send you some of the Patens! :)

That would be great-thanks!!

Ohhh, thanks Sue!
Visited SF Conservatory yesterday, got real inspired, will be posting pics soon here on Trop. forum so everyone here can help with names, there weren't many shown.

I never tried Canna's from seed. I figured I wouldnt get anything good, reading all this makes me want to give it a try. Anyone have any I could get for SASE or trade? I have can collect fresh Moonflower or Balloonflower seeds to trade. The Moonie I have is the shrub, not the vine - huge white night blooms. Let me know.

I would love to find some seeds also I love cannas.
Sandy

Mine came today,Thank you Sue,you are a sweetie!!

Hi,

I'm new here and I have a question about my cannas. I see a pod on them, looks like a little fuzzy thing. If I want to try them from seed, do I just plant the whole pod? Or do I break it open? They are still on the plant, do I wait for them to fall? or just pluck them off?

Thanks,
Kathy

Kathy, the pod will dry, and you can harvest it then. The black seeds are inside. Sometimes cannas have empty pods which are small. The plump, fat ones indicate that there are seeds inside.