if your Red Velour has not shed its seed yet collect it for next year. I have 5 packs of seed running into 100's of seeds I collected from mine .To many to collect so stopped at 5 packs. The seed should be viable from Red Velour as I had new plants spring up from under my hanging baskets which had shed seed earlier in the summer.
Kili
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Do you know if they come true to seed? @Lyn might know ? they are F1 seeds so I wouldn't of thought so but I think I'll collect some as well just to see what they are like.
I can't see any seed heads forming, but then I have been deadheading mine religiously. Perhaps I shouldn't trim the long wayward stems until the flowers have produced some seed heads, is it too late for the flowers to produce seeds?
For the last two years my TRVs have survived the winter against our patio wall in a sheltered position. Although they look quite sad in spring, a hard prune seems to set them right. Also they take so easily from cuttings that I make several cuttings whilst giving them a prune. Here’s pic from our TRV in its 3rd year and the second from its rampant baby that wants to go everywhere taken this morning
I will be putting my TRV's in the cold greenhouse when we have our first hard frost forecast. Hopefully not until Christmas time or maybe January. They should be safe in there, along with dahlia tubers etc.
Not all petunias grow from seeds, the long trailing ones don’t, so cuttings only. I saved seed from a lovely black one I grew some years ago, although the flowers were black, they were half the size of the originals. I don’t bother saving seeds from them now, rather start fresh next year.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have several that I have overwintered and from which I’ll take many cuttings when the weather warms up. However I don’t really know what I’ll be doing with them - probably give them away - as this year I will be changing the colour scheme and experimenting with Petunia Beautical French Vanilla, Cinnamon and Caramel Yellow.
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Kili
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I saved seed from a lovely black one I grew some years ago, although the flowers were black, they were half the size of the originals.
I don’t bother saving seeds from them now, rather start fresh next year.
http://sakataornamentals.eu/cuttings/x-petchoa/beautical