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Echium pininana from seed

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @oooft. That was a bit too soon for those seeds. Have you got anymore, you can sow now.
    I would put your one plant out for the summer and bring it in around end of September. 

    If you can survive it you only need the one, they make millions of seeds.  Somehow I don’t think you will, it’s too cold where you are.
    i had this one, really big plant, frost got it and I’m in Devon, although a cold part.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • oooftoooft Posts: 191
    Lyn said:
    @oooft. That was a bit too soon for those seeds. Have you got anymore, you can sow now.
    I would put your one plant out for the summer and bring it in around end of September. 

    If you can survive it you only need the one, they make millions of seeds.  Somehow I don’t think you will, it’s too cold where you are.
    i had this one, really big plant, frost got it and I’m in Devon, although a cold part.

    Thanks Lyn. It's a bit miserable here just now. I'll put it out when it's better. My conservatory gets cold in winter, I'm not sure if it will even survive in there. During the beast from the east it got down to 0.1 inside. If it makes it then have a go at planting outside next summer
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    No, it won’t survive,  perhaps you can bring it in the house? 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • oooftoooft Posts: 191
    Lyn said:
    No, it won’t survive,  perhaps you can bring it in the house? 

    Not sure it'll get enough light but I'll give it a bash
  • @stephentame that's kind of wild !!! Please tell me that's in the Baltic wastes of Yorkshire (by the way I am a total Yorkshire man through and through in case I offend anyone 🤣🤣) and I could achieve the same thing here

    Sorry to let you know we're in Devon, with a microclimate almost no frost.
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @stephentame lucky blighter 🤣
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    I have some Echium seedlings growing, stage 1 of the project has take off thanks @Lyn
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I'm surprised you say they won't survive -0.1 in a conservatory; there are several Echiums round here that made it through last winter out in the open with no protection - in the East Midlands. They are near buildings which must help a bit.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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