Re: SIGNA seed exchange
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: SIGNA seed exchange
- From: C* M* <c*@tiac.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:13:36 -0500 (EST)
Re: growing and blooming IRID's grown from SIGNA seeds?
>SHER!! I put my seeds in the refrigerator where they dried out. I'm afraid
>to touch them! but they are there, not rotted. Would they germinate if
>I put them in wet medium in plastic bags later on in the near-spring??
>
>And-- Should I treat species seeds "collected near Van Lake, Turkey" through
>the cold treatment??
My luck in germinating seeds is just that...LUCK. I usually don't
refrigerate any of the seeds of Cape Bulbs. Would love advice from someone
who knows how things should be germinated.
In my inside sunspace, I have grown and bloomed Aristea eckionii (SIGNA
93Z381). It had wonderful blue flowers 3/18-4/20/96. I had lovely delicate
light green/cream blooms on Gladiolus tristis (SIGNA 93Z396). My Ferraria
crispa (SIGNA 94Z258) looks like it is putting up a first bloomstalk. I
have a Dietes iridioides, given to me by Helga Andrews who grew it from
SIGNA seeds) that bloomed last spring with white blossoms w/ blue to violet
styles.
Also blooming this year was Belamcanda chinensis (SIGNA 94Z244), outside.
Really a beginner in this!!!
Kathy Marble
Harvard, MA
zone 5
