Camellias from seed?
 

In weeding the garden, I pulled what I later realized was a
small C. sasanqua that had sprouted from a seed dropped by a
nearby specimen. I wonder about raising such sprouts to
maturity.

Has anyone here successfully raised volunteer camellias? How
did they turn out?


Mike Prager
Beaufort, NC (on the coast in zone 8a)
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Has anyone here successfully raised volunteer camellias? How
did they turn out?


Mike Prager

My experience was rather like trying to win the lottery :
one died young, one was very weak and spindly, and one grew well, but it never
did flower., didn't even make buds.
A friend had better luck and got a pretty good plant, so why not go ahead and
try it.
Maybe you will get a winning number!

If it doesn't work, you can always "forget" to water it...................

Emilie
NorCal

MLEBLANCA wrote:

Has anyone here successfully raised volunteer camellias? How
did they turn out?


Mike Prager

My experience was rather like trying to win the lottery :
one died young, one was very weak and spindly, and one grew well, but it never
did flower., didn't even make buds.
A friend had better luck and got a pretty good plant, so why not go ahead and
try it.
Maybe you will get a winning number!

If it doesn't work, you can always "forget" to water it...................

Thanks for the info. I think I will try it next time.

As you say, nothing is permanent....

M

MLEBLANCA wrote:

Has anyone here successfully raised volunteer camellias? How
did they turn out?

Rooting around for information, I discovreed that Camellias rarely
breed true from seed and that cuttings are the more common way to
propagate.

I have several sturdy plants around the base of my overgrown Camellia
bush/tree hat have grown from (dropped) seed, but I usually dig them
up and give them away before I've seen them flower.