OK...Confess

Okay everyone....fess up?
How many of you are so excited about winter sowing that you just HAD to start SOMETHING inside?

OK, I will admit it. I HAD to put some seeds in *lol*

I have 3 or 4 different datura already sprouting
Luna Blush Hardy Hibiscus
3 different types of Platycodon

What am I going to do with these come February? I guess grow them as houseplants *lol*

OK, any other confessions out there? *lol*

Funny you should mention this! Last night I was cruising around some of the seed sites and looking in my seed box for something I could get going!

...Even thinking/dreaming about buying a green house to over winter them in....LOL

LOL, I'm looking at my little platycodon seedlings right now and saying to them "now where am I going to put you when you get bigger?" *lol*

I know I started WAAAY too soon but I just couldn't help myself. It will probably be June before they can go outside. That is a VERY long time to have pots full of babies *lol* SOOO much fun though. Helps get through the coming winter months that's for sure :)

I'm soaking/washing some iris seeds. Replanted the beds at my sons school entrance and put all the old flowers in my compost. Who do you think popped off all the seedheads? LOL

haven't started seeds yet - still collecting them and sorting them - but I have been tempted!

i will start daylily seeds soon....even some i crossed :-)

Ok, since this is the confession thread, I admit to more than just wanting to start seeds now. I have to confess that I just yesterday planted out two winter sown containers. Blackberry lilies and some daylily seedlings have been contently growing in their milkjug homes since I put them under the shade of a pine tree last January.
And yes to wanting to start early also. This year I'm going to sow a wildflower meadow in addition to inside sowing and outside wintersowing. So much enjoyment from seeing seedlings come up!

Okay, I'm with Cordeledawg, I've already "winter sown" (fall sown?) a couple of milk jugs. I do have an excuse though; I taught a winter sowing workshop in late September at our local horticultural society, and I prepared a couple of milk jugs complete with soil and seeds as a demo, and voila, I have two jugs of columbine seeds outside....

Joanne Ü

(Oh yeah, how long is everyone's seed list for next year's WS? I've got more than 40 already... Uh oh)

I too, am just collecting and sorting.

I dont have any soil or containers really -- haven't begun to save.... BUT my list should be shorter than last year.

I have have seeds that are "wild flower mix" that I plan to just direct sow, or maybe a lil of both, WS a handful and spread the rest.

Last year, much of my direct sow didn't come up, but in other spots it did great.

Hopefully, I'll get the help that my neighbor keeps promising -- she wants to rent a rototiller and make a HUGE garden -- we'll see.

so - back to topic... i probably wont start til Feb'ish like last year. Guess it all depends on how bored i get this winter.

Cordeledawg, are you going to plant your wildflower seeds in an area that has grass? I'm wondering if it would keep the grass down. It sounds beautiful!

Hey there, Raggedyann. Yes the area around both sides of my pond will be left natural. I'll clear patches here and there, just enough to sow wildflower seeds. If I completely tilled both sides, it would unearth mega evil weed seeds that would take years to control. I've already planted many butterfly host plants in the area so chemicals are out of the equation.

I have started collecting milk jugs for sowing in and I am in several seed swaps for seeds, part of which can be WS. On the Monthly Mayhem RR forum I will be hosting a WS swap. Keep an eye open on that thread about Dec 1st.

I have been going thru my seeds and trying to decide what tropicals I need to start now for planting in the spring.

So, dylancgc, if you start tropicals now are you putting them under lights? I suppose so....?

Last year I did a lot of wintersowing in soda bottles - not so good. The roots get all twisted up in the spiral grooves and there just isn't enough dirt/space to keep a plant happy for how long it takes a lazy girl like me to plant them out. I've started saving those enormous half-gallon milk containers.

xx, Carrie

I have several passionflowers, a banana tree and Brugmansias to start. I guess Brugs aren't tropicals but the passionflowers and banana is. I want a red banana really bad but haven't found one yet. Right now they are in the main(big) bathroom under skylights but I may have to put them under lights at some point.

I want to take cuttings from my brugs as well as start some seeds I have - though I have no idea what I will do with all the brugs! I have four already lol

I have pink brugs that are growing well and I have white seeds that I need to start. I would like to have other colors of seeds to try. I haven't done very well with cuttings. I may have one that is going to grow for me, all the others (10-12) died.

How does one get brug seeds? Do you have to pollinate them yourself? I am going to try cuttings.

Thlis is impossible . . . quick - somebody . . . . give me the name of something I can start right now - that will germinate quickly . . .

I got my brug seeds in a trade. They were NOID though so I will just label them that.

Come on you guys! Help me out here . . . what can I start now?

i'm going to start some daylily seeds....not sure what else

I can start daylily seeds now? Cool!

yes you can!
i had a lot of luck ws'ing a bunch last year too :-)

Hmmmm -- last week i plucked some seeds off of my Stella d'Oro lilies -- maybe i'll give it a go too.

do they take long to germinate?

Are they difficult - I wonder where I would get info on how to sow them . . . what did you do? How deep do I plant the seeds? etc.

i pre-sprouted them in a baggie with a moist paper towel
when i saw signs of them sprouting i put them in a plastic cup with dirt covering them very lightly
i put all of the seeds in unless it's obvious one is not going to work....for the most part i put all of one cross in one large cup or container (yogurt, plastic jugs, etc)
it is recommended to bottom water and not let them dry out

i did not provide extra heat (unless it was extremely cold) or light, just set them in a bright location

the seeds do need to be refrigerated first...i believe i've seen 3 weeks mentioned as the amount of time

when i ws'd them i just put bunches in milk jugs and then ended up with mounds of daylilies to plant...none of mine bloomed during their first summer however, on the dl forum several different people had blooms off of plants 9 mos old....

Michaela, calm thyself.

LOL Carrie.

larienda -- thanks for the info.

Well - it's either play with the plants - or mark papers. Guess which I would rather do! :-)

i know...i know!!!


plants :-)

Right! Gee . . . I wish I had a prize for you . . . .

that's ok...i went and pretended i knew how to divide a peony....depending on pout factor i guess i could find out if it will bloom next summer...fingers crossed (toes too!)

I'm crossing my fingers and toes for you as well :-)

I'm going to try rose seeds. I think if I start them this fall and grow them under lights or in a south window over the winter (assuming any of them germinate), they may be big enough to plant in the spring/summer. That will give me something to fuss with until January.

Let us know how you do, grampapa. I am currently trying to root roses! so far, I have successfully rooted a New Dawn.

I had a new dawn rose - it died last winter. :>(

no way! Well, if I get this to grow, I will take cuttings in the future and make you a new one!

OK thanks, hon. Then there is the question of why I successfully killed it.

maybe it was old.