I was given a few seeds of the double Yellow Datura along with a few others and it seems that the yellow is the only one I can't get to germinate. I have tried several different ways, all after reading the different posts on the datua forum. Does anyone have a few extra seed I can send an sase for. I would still like to have one and suggestions to get it to start.
Robin
CLOSED: Help with Dbl Yellow Datura
Hello:I have seeds to this datura.Let me know?Thanks!
Datura can take a long time to sprout, upwards to 6 weeks!!!! You might try my Curse n Stir method which is genuine, not a joke and actually seems to work for me and others who have tried it. What you do is curse at the seeds which aren't germinating, stir up the soil and plant different seeds in the soil. Usually, within a week, the datura will sprout.
I'm deadly serious about this so quit laughing.
X
Thanks X, I will do that in a minute or two. Thank you Skimper, can I send you an sasbe?
Robin
skimper,
How do you grow these in Ohio. I think the plants look great but I live in Cincinnati and I'm afraid that they might get too big to move in and out of the house.
Hudy
X
When you say stir up the soil and plant different seeds do you mean a different variety of seeds or more datura?
X...does the curse and stir method work with other seeds too?!?!
i will be sure to let you know any results from that method :-)
I think if it worked with plants as well, I'd be living in a jungle..
Hello:Unclehudy:I start my datura seeds indoors under grow lights in peat pots.When they start getting bigger I transplant them to a bigger container and continue to grow under lights and plant them outside after the danger of the last frost.I always harden them off for a few days before planting outside.
Hello:Robin you can send me a sasbe.My addy is in the address exchange.Thank You! Karla
I have these growing under grow lights now.I also grow brugmansia.I have 2 that I started from seed a year ago.No blooms yet?It can take 2 yrs.to see a bloom.Brugmansia from cutting bloom earlier.I potted cuttings of brugmansia yesterday that I had rooting in water under grow lights in glasses.Here is a photo of one of the 2 brugs I started from seed growing indoors.
So cool Skimper, a very generous person sent me 3 brugs this year, they are my first. Your's look great, now I hope I can get the datura to grow.
I'll mail out a sase Monday, thank you so much.
X, I stirred and cussed and cussed and stirred, I added Hibs that I can't get to sprout to the datura, maybe something will finally come up!
The Curse n Stir seems to work with just about anything. I discovered this method by accident a few years ago. I finally gave up on some datura seeds and dumped the soil into another pot and added more soil, stirred it all up then planted some canna seeds and voila! the datura were sprouting a few days later. So I tried it again and it worked and again and it worked, then others started trying it and it worked.
Why does it work? I don't know .. perhaps I wasn't being patient enough and they were ready to sprout, perhaps disturbing the seeds and stirring, incorporates air into the soil which stimulates germination, perhaps the other seeds are leeching sprouting encouraging chemicals into the soil.
I have noticed also, since I use a community seed starting pot over and over, that subsequent seeds seem to sprout faster and faster the older the soil gets, or it just might be that it's getting warmer. I vaguely remember, don't remember where, hearing that wetting seeds wakes up a bacteria on the seedcoat which aids in germination. My guess is that the older the soil in my community pot gets, the more bacteria is present in the soil and that's why seeds seem to sprout faster.
My general feeling about all this is that if it works, don't fix it.
X
I always soak my datura seeds. It takes a while for them to germinate.
You can have flowers the first year and then just treat them like an annual and start over from seed the next year again, if you can't bring them inside.