Propagating hosta from seed

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AlaninCarlisle

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Propagating hosta from seed
« on: August 22, 2017, 17:41 »
Anyone ever tried it? Any tips?

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JimB

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Re: Propagating hosta from seed
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2017, 22:08 »
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hi!

A bit of a lost cause with me for both!

Have tried to save seed from Heucheras  without success but on a number of occasions have found seedling growing in the tubs. I pricked them out and potted them on but for some reason they always die!

Also with hostas I have saved seed on a number of occasions and sowed the seed, they do germinate ok, but they are very slow growing, the latest batch are in their third year and are only about two inches high!
They are almost always useless green varieties as all the cream leaves,light coloured and other fancy leaves never survive.
I looked on some American forums when this happen to me at first, and they also reported that they could not get fancy ones to grow on!
Some of the American amateur gardeners have photo's of thousands of seedling which they have propagated, and most are almost green leaves, no specials, but someone succeeds as there are lots of pretty ones out there!
One other thing, they say that they have to keep them about four or five years before their true foliage shows up!

Try this site Hostaseedgrowers forum, you have to registar to view the photographs!

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

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AlaninCarlisle

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Re: Propagating hosta from seed
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2017, 09:28 »
Thanks for that. Think I'll give it a miss



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