Re: tagetes ?erecta
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- Subject: Re: tagetes ?erecta
- From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:30:39 -0700
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At 10:44 PM 1/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>do you know anyone who supplies this?
>
>on nov.1 every year the markets of oaxaca, mexico, are flooded with trucks
>that are over- loaded with blooms of this marigold.
>i have seen them in the fields; they are growing over 6ft (2m) high
>
>I suspect that a small patch is allowed to go to seed, which is harvested
>around sept. the rest are disbudded continuously until about oct. 1, when
>they are allowed to go into bloom, prolifically, for market as cut flowers
>for their day-of-the-dead celebrations
>
>i would like 50 - 100 seeds. do you know a supplier, in usa or mexic or
>anywhere else?
>
>geoff gstanf@swbell.net
>
J.L. Hudson sells Tagetes erecta seeds, but I think you mean another
Tagetes. Hudson says Erecta, or African marigold, grows to three feet.
The Tagetes that grows to over six feet is Tagetes minuta, and Richters
sells seeds for that variety. See www.Richters.com Margaret L
