Re: Datura seeds

How do you know when the pod is ripe and ready for picking?  I have some too, if you don't have enough for everyone Andrea...
   
  Donna
   
   
  

andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
  Zem and Jesse-I have the double purple which ALWAYS comes true from 
seed-I'll be glad to send you both a pod as my new yard is a good soil 
paradise and I've never had so many blooms or such big plants. Anyone 
else???? I'll have white ones too.
A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Bell" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Datura/Book


>I hear ya Zem. I totally understand. I can order seeds NOW...and that way
> I'll have them next spring...if I don't lose the seed packages somewhere 
> in
> the house before then!!! I swear...I need a housewife and a mother...an
> "Aunt "B"...that can run my house for me! LOL
> Aren't we supposed to slow down when we get older? That's not happening 
> for
> me....
>
>
> On 8/22/08, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, Jesse. While mine did seed true there were only a few of them and
>> for a couple of years only. I don't have anything but the wild white 
>> ones
>> now. I'm so busy I'm meeting myself coming and going.
>> zem
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 8:50 AM
>> Subject: [CHAT] Datura/Book
>>
>>
>> Hey Zen...if you get any decent seeds off of yours, can I have a few? 
>> The
>>> only one I have is white and every time I think about ordering more
>>> seeds...it's usually too late in the year to even start them. *sighhh*.
>>>
>>> I ordered the book "Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your
>>> Life" by Geri Larkin. It's a nice read...makes me chuckle and even made
>>> me
>>> want to go outside and re-evaluate my gardens. Sometimes you just need 
>>> to
>>> "re-do" and re-think them. Now that I'm working full time and going 
>>> back
>>> to
>>> college, I have limited time, but I just set a timer for 1 hours and go
>>> outside and work. Amazing what you can get done when you do that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/21/08, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are talking about datura, both my double yellow and purple, and
>>>> they
>>>> have always seeded true.
>>>> zem
>>>> zone 7
>>>> West TN
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" 
>>>> To: "gardenchat list" 
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 9:30 PM
>>>> Subject: [CHAT] question
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I bought some of those hybrid moon flowers, name escapes me at the
>>>>
>>>>> moment. The doubles, purple and yellow varieties this year. Of course,
>>>>> this year hasn't been gardening or upkeep for many reasons, lucky if I
>>>>> have time to water them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed they already have seed pods (yes it got away from me) 
>>>>> although
>>>>> I will probably have about 15 flowers open tomorrow, their blooming 
>>>>> its
>>>>> fool head off......
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> so the question is.....Wondering if they seed true or would I end up
>>>>> with
>>>>> the plain jane white ones from it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Donna
>>>>>
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