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Re: Chocolate scented cosmos

Mike Smith-VE9AA, Coreen Smith-VE9AAA, wrote:
> 
> My friend has some of these plants and she also has seed. Are they sterile? Why
> is no one offering the seeds and only the plants? We would really like to get
> more plants from the ones she has to share.  Any info would be appreciated if
> anyone has any on these.
> 
> Coreen
> 
> Michael & Coreen Smith
> 271 Smith Rd, Waterville
> Sunbury Co, NB, E2V 3V6
> Canada
> 
> Coreen (1997-1998 Co-President for Orchid Society of New Brunswick)
> 
> Mike's/ve9aa personal homepage is at:
> http://members.tripod.com/~ve9aa/index.html
> Coreen's/ve9aaa personal homepage is at:
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2174

We sold numerous plants of this this year.  I even got some as bare
root.  They grow from a tuber similar to a dahlia.  In fact, the tuber
can get quite large.  I, too, have never seen the seed available, even
commercially.  But I was told by a wholesale grower that the tuber can
be divided as a dahlia can.  They are VERY late emerging in the spring,
and will not take a freeze.  They LOVE heat.  Be careful in your
watering.  We rotted 50 tubers by keeping them too wet and cold before
they broke dormancy.
One wholesale grower I talked to said they only get about a 50% survival
rate on their tubers that they hold over.  Albeit that these particular
tubers were quite small.  The bareroot I got in were approximatly 6
inches across.
Do hope that this helps.

The Greenhouse Nursery
81 S Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
Port Angeles, WA  98362

Zone 8
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