Subject: Hyacinth from Seed?
From: "John McGaw"
Date: 5/11/2004 7:28 PM Central Daylight Time
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I know that there are frequent questions about the possibility/advisabilty
of raising daffodils from seed. And the answer usually is "yes you can but
the bulbs are so cheap why would you bother to wait years for flowers from
seeds?" Well, my question is a parallel but involves hyacinths. I planted
some fairly pricey bulbs from a local garden center last autumn and the
flowers this spring were spectacular. I'd like to have more of them but at
over $2 per bulb I'm not going to buy too many more. But a large number of
the flowers set seed and have large seedpods now. What would be the process
of harvesting and planting the seeds? I realize that it may be several years
before anything comes of it but I'd like to try it as much to satisfy my
curiosity as to save $20 for a couple more bags of bulbs. TIA


I'd start the seeds now, they might require a couple weeks in the fridge, and
then plant out this summer. It might take a couple years for flowers, but
they'll grow. The only challenge is getting the seeds to germinate in the first
place.

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