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Post by toonia on Oct 11, 2006 14:20:28 GMT
I collected some seed from these yesterday and then left them in their pot out in the rain! As they had been pre-soaked I've stuck them in some compost...any chance of germination? Was I right in thinking there was no point in drying them out and sowing them next spring? I noticed that a lot of seed has fallen into the pond. What will happen to that? Presumably this is how they propagate themselves in the wild.
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Post by andy on Oct 11, 2006 14:31:53 GMT
Is this yellow flag as in yellow iris (iris pseudochorus)
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Post by toonia on Oct 11, 2006 14:34:31 GMT
Yes! Grown from seed in the first place!
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Post by andy on Oct 11, 2006 15:35:22 GMT
I'd be inclined to stratify them first then just bring them into a warmer place in spring and see what happens. As they're naturally water loving plants, i'd be inclined to put the pot with the seeds in a saucer of water and keep it topped up....but i'd only do this when you bring the seeds in and trigger the germination process.
They should grow fairly well....they come up like hairs on a cats back in my bog garden at work.
Good luck
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Post by toonia on Oct 11, 2006 15:50:07 GMT
Thanks Andy! And do you know what will happen to the ones in the pond? Do they sink and germinate in the sludge at the bottom? They're floating on the surface at the moment.
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Post by andy on Oct 11, 2006 15:58:26 GMT
I would imagine that the idea would be for them to eventually get washed ashore where they would get naturally stratified and then germinate in the moist ground around the edge.
I haven't had any that have germinated in the pond itself.....mind you, the pond's 3' deep all over !!!!
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Post by toonia on Oct 11, 2006 16:07:33 GMT
It'll be wait and see then! By the way, when I said the seeds were in a pot, I meant the pot I'd collected them in, and not planted in a pot!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2006 13:21:54 GMT
Somebody gave me some seeds. I scarified/stratified some in some pots with compost in and just planted the others in compost in pots without doing anything to them. At first it seemed that the scarified ones were growing and not the other ones but then the other ones that I'd just kept in moist compost overtook them. And like andy said, the ones that grew, and there were a good few of them, ended up coming up just like hairs on a cat's back. But it took a while before anything happened. They were in my 'portable mini greenhouse' for ages before they gave in and sprouted.
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