Re: Picking Your Collective Brain

**jo ellen meyers sharp h*@sbcglobal.net**

This sounds like sown seed, which I think would be different than self sown.

jems

>Peonies can indeed self sow. Most of us cut our peonies back so they do not
>set seed.
>Peonies take one year to germinate, one year to put top foliage on and
>several more years to flower. I am growing quite a few peonies from seed. I
>have some seeds in the ground but only one has shown top growth and that was
>last summer. I do not know if more will show top growth this year.
>I also have numerous peony seeds in pots. I do not know what they are
>crossed with but here are the parents. They are:
>Paeonia species - rose - seed sown October 21, 2004.
>Peony - unknown
>Tree Peony
>Paeonia rockii IR - seed winter sown on January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia 'White Cap' - I believe this seed has been through two, maybe three
>winters.
>Paeonia officinalis ssp. villosa - pink - I believe this seed has been
>through two, maybe three winters.
>Paeonia mascula Sicily (white flowers) - seed winter sown on January 9,
>2005.
>Paeonia ostii 'Fen Dan Bei' - seed winter sown on January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia anomala - red - seed sown in the winter of 2003.
>Paeonia banatica - seed sown January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia delavayii - seed sown January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia lithophila - seed sown January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia officinalis Monte Baldo - seed sown in the winter of 2003.
>Paeonia tenuifolia EM - seed sown January 9, 2005.
>Paeonia triternata McLewin - seed sown January 9, 2005.
>All of these are showing top growth now. I had them in my heated greenhouse
>and have just moved them to my unheated greenhouse.
>Sheri
>
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