Re: hellstrips now pulstilla

In a message dated 4/18/02 10:18:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
sistermarya@juno.com writes:

<< If you have a trick to germinating pulsatilla please share. Mine is going
 to seed now and I'd really like to try sowing it. >>


I used seed from my own plants.  The way to get them to germinate is to plant 
the seed as soon as ripe. If you hold it over to fall or the following spring 
it need all kinds of cool-warm-cool treatment.

Plant them as soon as the pods seem fully mature and water until you see some 
growth.  It may take up to a month.  Then the plants put on enough growth in 
the first summer to hold over and place the following year.  Planted as fresh 
seed, you get more plants than you need.  They should be in semi shade, 
morning sun, for the first months.  Here I would probably fertilize a bit 
more than some with a longer season to get a larger plant. The more vigorous 
the plant, the more likely to live over the winter.

I thought I'd take mine to the rocks meeting for trading but now I have none. 
 I am still smarting over the rodent damage.

Actually, I got full germination this way.  When I collected the seed and 
used the alpine approach of pots planted in the fall and held over the winter 
outdoors, I got no germination at all.  When I collected and saved the seeds 
for spring planting, I got zero germination.

Ours are one budded and the others just beginning to grow.  I do hope they 
escape the freak heat.  It was a 25 year high here the past two days.  We 
have A/C on in April!!!

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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