Re: Bulb Seeds
- Subject: Re: Bulb Seeds
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 01:56:06 EDT
All bulbs plants will set seed like any other plant, but many times the
plants we have in our gardens are selected sterile clones that do not become
pollinated. The resignee these clones are selected is because they bloom
longer, once the flower is pollinated in most plants there is no reason the
for the plant to keep the flower any longer and the plant responds by getting
rid of the flower so its energy can go into the fruit.
The seeds of most bulbs are large, lilies produce small seeds with large
wings.
Lots of time you might get seed pods to form but there are no seeds, I have
rarely had seeds on my spring bulbs but then again I do not have a large
number that can cross pollinate with each other. If you grow the true species
bulbs you will get much more reliable seed set.
But if you do get seeds-its allows worth sowing them to see what you come up
with-germination for most bulbs take one to three years and plants need to
grow for one to five years before they become large enough to flower.
Paul
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