"Douglas" wrote in message
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| "Stephen Williams" wrote in
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| "Douglas" wrote in message
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| | "Rod" wrote in message
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| | On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:44:08 +0100, "Stephen Williams"
| | wrote:
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| | My montana is shedding seeds like there no tomorrow, so I thought
I'd
| | have a
| | go at germinating some.
| |
| | Any sure fire tips?
| |
| | TIA
| | Steve
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| | http://www.backyardgardener.com/tm.html
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| | Rod
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| | Weed my email address to reply
| | http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html
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| | Germinate Montana Rubens or other named clematis seeds?.
| | To what purpose?. Cover yours and the neighbours housetops with
flowers
| for
| | a fortnight each May?.
| | Who's to say what kind of plant you'll get.
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| Precisely why I want to try seed - you never know what you will get!
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| | Clematis are not recommended to be propagated by sowing their seeds..
| | Cuttings are the thing, - one to each node, bottom heat essential -
and
| | care, for multiple success.
| | Doug.
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| Multiple success of all being the same is fine, seeds give variety. You
| have to be ruthless some seeds are bad'uns others are beautiful. I have
| an
| Antrhinum? that has produced orange and yellow flowers and over winters
to
| flower again.
| Steve
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| With respect Steve, we are talking clematis.
| The standard procedure is to choose two named varieties and use the
| cross-pollination method.
| There's a difficulty here. If you have a wide variety of plants in one
| greenhouse or garden you get plenty of cross pollination but it is out of
| control and you can't put your wife's name on a new variety only by
chance.
| If you screen the two plants and cross-pollinate them you get a good
chance
| of success and you will know the antecedents names.
| What I mean is that you have more control.
| If you accidentally get a wildcat sport you may as well just call it
Lizzie
| Hoggins. (Only joking, - Liz.! (:^)
| Doug.
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Don't take my nieces name in vein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Joke)

I understand what you are saying, but I'm not trying get a spectacular new
variety.
Its like work, I'm doing it because its there.

Steve