Allow seedheads to dry on plants. Does this mean what was my colored "flower" is now seed?
I have never collected seeds before. So don't laugh.
CLOSED: Globe Amaranth, Gomphrena, Gomphrena globosa
Macybee, don't worry. I was collecting the head of the stem of the latana before I realized the seeds pod are external beads attached to that.. Apparantly I was collecting the wrong part.. LOL
I did not know that either!!!!
You mean the little green beads that we used to tear off as kids and throw them at one another?
so are the green beads the seeds or are they the pods? Do the beads have seeds in them?
Macybee, the seeds are part of the flower. When they are dry, you can pull off the colored part of each little piece of the flower and what is left will be the base of that piece. It looks a little like cotton, but it is the seed.
AuntAnne&Yardqueen, from what other people told me, the green beads which turns into mature black beads are the seeds of the lantana.. But I broke one of those green beads apart and I thought I saw two seeds... So I'm not really sure.. I'm gonna just plant the entire bead in the spring.. Haven't decided if I'm gonna break it open first yet..
If you have several you could try both ways. I have a lot of the black beads from my lantana but I have never planted any. I have been rooting cuttings when I want some for someone else or if a piece breaks off.
yardqueen, never tried rooting lantanas.. Is it easy? What medium do you used? I'm not sure my seeds would be true to color.. My neighbor has light pinky-peach one and mine is red-orange one. I rather not end up with one like my neighbors...
I just put the cutting in potting soil making sure there is at least one node in the soil. Then I water it and cover it with a zip lock bag (unzipped) or a dome made out of the top half of a 2 liter bottle (like in winter sowing) or a clear plastic cup with vents cut at the top or what ever works to preserve some humidity. I take off the largest leaves. They may even lose the leaves altogether and look dead but they usually sprout back out. Sometimes I may lose one, but usally they do fine. NO I do not use rooting hormone. Every thing I have ever used it on dies.
Yardqueen, actually I'm with you there.. Everything I've used rooting hormone dies too. Always thought it was me but hum.... Think I'll try it without the rooting hormone next time... Thanks..
I don't have a prob. I used it on my brug seedlings and some that I just took out of the tub last week, I'm already having to move to a larger pot. It could always be the particular cross but who knows, I don't question when something grows for me, lol. On the other hand all salvias run in fear from me, they fall over and die almost immediately. So I really think that some people do certain plants well. Everyone seems to have a plant that just won't grow for them. Amaranthus, coleus, and sedum come to mind for me as well. In the same league as salvia.
Anne
Coleus? I think I could plant coleus in a dust bunny in the closet and it would grow! (SLIGHT exageration) however there are a few cultivars that I simply cannot root. Every time I have gotten cuttings of those they rot. But 99% of the time I just stick a cutting or boken piece in a pot or even in the flower bed and it will root and take off! Now I am not really good with roses, but that is partly due to the kind I have bought and also I know they need a lot of "treatments"
Looked at the pics on PF.
DING DONG. DING DONG.
Dunno.. The only rooting that I've done successfully is the pineapple.. That sucker grew too big to keep it indoors but I'm in z5. So I ended up giving it away.. And that was without rooting hormones too.. I do know that I have like a rooting gel. I haven't used it on anything but things that already have minimal roots and I wanted to root out more.. Those little roots with the rooting gel goes nuts and the roots really fill out then..