Re: Hosta Seeds
Thanks Rich, I hope you did get your seeds the same place I got mine.
I want some of them to sprout.
IGLH
Sam I Am
Would you eat them with a Hosta?
Would you eat them with lotsa pasta?
>
> << Some were black, some brown, some had a white or light cream colored
spot
> and some were white or light cream with the seed part being dark. There
were
> even a few solid white. >>
> Good morning, Sharon:
>
> IMHO let's start to answer your question from the easy to the hard: the
size,
> shape, and length are not predictors as to the size, shape, or length of
the
> hosta that will germinate and grow. That's one of the truly neat things
> about the unstable non Mendelian genetics of breeding hosta.
>
> Totally white seeds have a very high probability on not germinating. With
a
> black/brown hard seed and a clear "wing" some might germinate. The opaque
> brown and black seed wings with a hard tactile seed at the end are mature
> seeds. These are supposed to germinate under favorable soil, water,
> temperature conditions. These seeds should germinate.
>
> Please note the "should" germinate. The seeds need to be viable and have
> favorable conditions. I had two seed trays that I planted opaque brown
and
> black seed wings with a hard tactile seed head. These seeds were all from
> expensive streaked seed parents. Nothing germinated. These trays were
> treated the same as my other 12+ trays that did germinate. Sometimes it
was
> not to be...
>
> Green eggs & Ham, Sam I am...Hostally,
>
> Rich Horowitz
> Stoughton MA
> z5
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