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• Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906

  October 2019

  Hi Paul. Here are a few suppliers:

  https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Flower-Seeds/All-Flower-Seeds/Calibrachoa-Seeds---F1-Kabloom-Mix_107137.htm

  https://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Flowers/Flower-Seeds/Flower-Seeds-A-to-C/Calibrachoa-Seeds---Kabloom_414659.htm

  https://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/index.php/flower-seeds-calibrachoa-c-6_83_590
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  

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• paul.fieldwilliams Posts: 48

  October 2019

  Hi Ladybird4, thanks for the speedy response. I forgot to say I am looking for the bright red version. I did see the Sutton site but it seems there's are mixed colors only? I am thinking about taking cuttings from this years blooms but thought it might be easier with some seeds in Spring?

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• Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906

  October 2019

  Hi again Paul - it does seem that the seeds for specific colours are few and far between. As I recall all those links I gave you talked about a mixed variety called 'Kabloom'.
  

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  October 2019

  I think most calibrachoa are sterile, so they can only be propagated by cuttings.

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  October 2019

  That's right, they are grown from cuttings.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• paul.fieldwilliams Posts: 48

  October 2019

  Wow really? Ok. I will try some cuttings. I am assuming it's like taking fuscia cuttings?

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• Kili Posts: 1,104

  October 2019

  Hi Paul, you can get seeds. I bought them from Dobies ( see link) 
  
  https://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Flowers/Flower-Seeds/Flower-Seeds-A-to-C/Calibrachoa-Seeds---Kabloom_414659.htm
  
  However getting them to take from seed proved devilishly difficult. I only got two plants to propagate from seed from about 30 seeds sown. I would take the advice here and try to proagate from cuttings if you have a source plant.
  
  Kili

  'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

  George Bernard Shaw'

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  October 2019

  I'm probably being really thick -probably definitely!
  If the plants are sterile, how do they get seeds to sell?

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  October 2019

  To my knowledge, the seeds that are available are only for a specific strain of calibrachoa (Kabloom). 

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  October 2019

  Oh. That makes sense now😊

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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