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Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: mark smyth on July 07, 2008, 04:03:29 PM

Title: Pelargoniums from seed
Post by: mark smyth on July 07, 2008, 04:03:29 PM

Today I collected my first Pelargoniums seeds of the year. The following are available but please only take up the offer if you can keep the plants frost free over the winter. Species Pelargoniums arent prolific seeders and it would be a shame to waste them

myrrhifolium
myrrhifolium var coriandrifolium
pulverulentum
ranunculophyllum
alchemilloides
elongatum

Title: Re: Pelargoniums from seed
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 08, 2008, 04:08:11 AM

Mark,
one of the P. alchemilloides you sent me has just germinated! (Only sown in June).
I'll move it under cover in case it's frost sensitive!
Of your new seed only the P. myrrhifolium is allowed in!
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Pelargoniums from seed
Post by: mark smyth on July 11, 2008, 05:15:01 PM

Fermi P. alchemilloides is very hardy for me. What about the other Pelarginium seeds I sent?

If myrrhifolium is allowed in why would the var coriandrifolium be banned? Of course you can get any that you want but labelled as something else

Title: Re: Pelargoniums from seed
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 12, 2008, 05:56:04 AM

Sorry, Mark,
I should have said that P.mrrhifolium and its subspecies are allowed into the country.
I'm yet to get germination on the others, but they were only sown in June. I don't usually sow before the cool weather as we don't have much space in the Shade-house for protecting new seedlings during the late spring and the summer.
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Pelargoniums from seed
Post by: mark smyth on August 31, 2008, 06:10:59 PM

I'm very late sending seeds to those who wanted them.

My current list is now
myrrhifolium
myrrhifolium var coriandrifolium
pulverulentum
ranunculophyllum
alchemilloides
elongatum
tongaense
zonale
acetosum
quinqulobatum
australe
triste
panduriforme
papillonaceum

some seeds I only have a few