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Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: mark smyth on April 18, 2014, 07:45:50 PM

Title: Ranunculus calandrinioides from seed
Post by: mark smyth on April 18, 2014, 07:45:50 PM

This year was my best year ever for Ranunculus calandrinioides. Was it due to last years heat, because I divided my plant in to three and repotted each or because I grew them in the green house sand plunge.

It looks like they are going to set loads of seed. What do I do with it? Sow fresh? Where?

Title: Re: Ranunculus calandrinioides from seed
Post by: ranunculus on April 18, 2014, 07:50:46 PM

I would scatter half of them in the plunge, Mark … they seem very happy there … and the rest in a pot of gritty compost … very fresh obviously.  Good luck.

Title: Re: Ranunculus calandrinioides from seed
Post by: mark smyth on April 18, 2014, 07:58:56 PM

Thanks Cliff.

Title: Re: Ranunculus calandrinioides from seed
Post by: mark smyth on April 20, 2014, 12:18:45 AM

Do the seeds drop when green or change colour?

Should I feed the plants? General feed or tomato?

Title: Re: Ranunculus calandrinioides from seed
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 04, 2014, 11:46:28 PM

In my limited experience Mark, Buttercups like a scone with jam. :)

Your seed looks lovely and I hope it germinates like mad. We don't seem to get seed here, or not that I've seen. Seed sent to our lists is always tiny and never fertile (of calandrinioides, I mean) so best of luck with it Do you have 2 clones and so have cross pollination? I've wondered if that's the problem here, most plants if not all, being from a single, divided source.