Re: Re:collecting/planting seeds

Patrick,

> I personally would like to hear from those who plant seeds fresh.  I feel
> like I am missing something here.  Is there a trick to it or something?

I've done it in a specialized way.  I planted them green into pots and then
kept the pots in the fridge until fall.  Last year the green seeds planted
were nearly all the seeds I planted that germinated.  This year the success
rate was not as high, but some pods had very good germination.  However, the
seeds from last year, whether they were the green seeds or those dried and
planted in the fall had some good germination the second year.  There were a
lot of pots planted either way that didn't have any germination, though.  I
had multiple pods of the the same crosses, but there wasn't any consistent
pattern on whether the green planted seeds worked better or not.  Certainly
some of them waited the extra year to germinate as did the dried seeds.
They didn't seem to rot.  I don't plant directly in the ground either way,
so I don't know if that would change the results.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
> To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:21 PM
> Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: collecting/planting seeds (was OT late bloom)
>
>
> > After some experiments planting fresh seeds here last year, I can say
> > with enthusiasm that this does NOT work in our climate with the
> > varieties that will grow and produce seeds here.  I divided seeds into
> > several lots treated different ways from several crosses, and fresh
> > planted seeds were the only ones that had NO germination.  Even the
> > following spring, only two of those seeds germinated.  The rest are
> > still sitting there, etiher rotted or sulking.
> >
> > Unless there is some sort of recommended pre-treatment of the fresh
> > seeds before planting that I haven't heard....
> >
> > I don't know if the lack of germination is due to our climate or to the
> > cultivars that will grow in our climate or the combination of both.
>
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