How Many?

My sister in law gave a bunch of Stella De Oro seeds. Can I winter sow them? How many to a 2 lb butter bowl? She was going to save me her Canna seeds, but my brothers cancer treatments are keeping her from doing anything to get the seeds.
Thanks

Hi, June! I don't know about sowing daylily seeds in any manner. You might ask on the Daylily Forum.

I just did my first winter sowing this past winter - it was fun. Less stress knowing my plant shelf and window sills were much less crammed! Only problem was that my teen dd said my containers looked like we had a "redneck" backyard! LOL!

I've never done daylilies either, but I know that some do it successfully. Not sure how many years from seed to bloom, either.

After a while (3 years now for me) you get used to the redneck decor, and so do the neighbors. It's no longer a curiosity around here.

Nobody even bats an eye anymore when I go out and take milk jugs from recycle bins, bags of leaves and grass clippings out of strangers' trash piles, throw piles of "garbage" in the yard and call it lasagna.

Well, OK, maybe I remain a mild curiosity in the neighborhood. My husband gets embarrassed and says neighbors call me "that crazy flower lady".

Karen

I sowed daylilies last year using the coffee filter method. I took the daylily seeds and put them in a moist coffee filter, then folded the filter and put it in a plastic zip-lock bag - then into the fridge. About 3 months later, I remembered them! I took the seeds out into room termperature and a few days later they started to germinate. Every other day I would carefully fold back the coffee filter and romove those that had germinated and potted them up. Then I grew them under lights in the basement. The survivors are growing in the front garden and I guess that maybe next year they will have blooms.

I also had some germinate that I winter sowed - but I didn't get them into the ground soon enough, so the poor little dears died.

I will try some more this year.

stella dora's are the easiest to grow from seed and mine will bloom the first year as well. I've always just collected the seed then replanted directly into the soil where I want them... and up come the shoots and then later in the summer the blooms. This year I did some seed inside and then transplanted outside. They did ok but I got a late start on getting them started and within two days after finally planting them, the chipmunks had them chewed up. So back to my method of directly sowing them in the ground.

Good luck yall.

Janet

I have winter sown Stella De Oro seeds and it works. If the seeds are large enough to handle separately I space them all enough that I don't have to do any thinning in the spring. I am not familiar with a 2 lb butter bowl, I use 1 gallon milk containers and put 9 - 12 seeds in a container.

Zen -- how much do they grow the first year? Do you get blooms - on not until a year or so later?

I have a bunch of seeds ... though most i'm donating to Hurricane victims ..i may save a few for myself if they grow quickly.

Terese

folks, I've always had the seed grow and bloom the same year, or maybe I should say I plant in fall, then the next spring when they start growing they then bloom, so it crosses over the year but I consider it one year.

Throw some out cover and wait for next spring.

Janet

The only winter sowing I have done done that didn't bloom the first year was Hollyhocks.

I've wintersown daylilies successfully. I've not had blooms yet and may not as the squirrels keep digging them out of the container they are planted in!!!. Hollyhocks are biennials, so they won't bloom until the second year. Digitalis and Silver Dollar plant are the same. Candy Lily wintersows well also. I am hoping to have blooms this coming year. They would be 3 years old.