Hi All

My fuschia has two deep red seed pods on it. Can I collect the seeds to
grow my own plants next year?

Thank you
Donna

"Donna Ludlow" wrote
My fuschia has two deep red seed pods on it. Can I collect the seeds to
grow my own plants next year?

Yes but due to crosspollination they will not be the same plant as what you
have this year.

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Regards
Bob Hobden

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"Donna Ludlow" wrote
My fuschia has two deep red seed pods on it. Can I collect the seeds to
grow my own plants next year?

Yes but due to crosspollination they will not be the same plant as what you
have this year.


They may just be ordinary but could be wonderful, you will not make your
fotune as there are so many named Fuchsias but at least the results will
be unique to your garden, or you could simply eat them they have a mild
sweet flavour with a peppery after taste
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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My fuschia has two deep red seed pods on it. Can I collect the seeds to
grow my own plants next year?

Yes - but expect the unexpected.

If you get enough pods/berries, you can use them for making jam and jelly.

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Rusty
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On Aug 16, 11:40 am, Rusty Hinge 2
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If you get enough pods/berries, you can use them for making jam and jelly.

I've got a huge F. magellanica out in the rear lane that flowers all
year round, but produces masses of berries mainly in late summer and
early autumn. When I think about it, I collect them fully ripe and
slowly dry them in a low oven to produce Fuchsia 'raisins', which are
then bagged and frozen. I use them as treats for my parrots, but
occasionally find myself nibbling a few as well. Definitely not in
the same class as a fine muscat raisin, but decidedly edible
nonetheless.

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I've got a huge F. magellanica out in the rear lane that flowers all
year round, but produces masses of berries mainly in late summer and
early autumn. When I think about it, I collect them fully ripe and
slowly dry them in a low oven to produce Fuchsia 'raisins', which are
then bagged and frozen. I use them as treats for my parrots, but
occasionally find myself nibbling a few as well. Definitely not in
the same class as a fine muscat raisin, but decidedly edible
nonetheless.

Hmmm. If either of us remembers, do you think you could spare a few
(uncooked!) pods, please? I'd like such a bush - well, several.

I (and the workforce) have just cut down and dug out about 30 yards of
Lonicera nidia hedge, and I'm replacing it with fruit-bearing stuff -
Fuchsia would improve the look of the front innit.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/garden.htm - and it is looking more
like one every day.

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Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

On 17/8/08 22:06, in article , "Rusty
Hinge" wrote:

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from Dave Poole contains these words:

I've got a huge F. magellanica out in the rear lane that flowers all
year round, but produces masses of berries mainly in late summer and
early autumn. When I think about it, I collect them fully ripe and
slowly dry them in a low oven to produce Fuchsia 'raisins', which are
then bagged and frozen. I use them as treats for my parrots, but
occasionally find myself nibbling a few as well. Definitely not in
the same class as a fine muscat raisin, but decidedly edible
nonetheless.

Hmmm. If either of us remembers, do you think you could spare a few
(uncooked!) pods, please? I'd like such a bush - well, several.

I (and the workforce) have just cut down and dug out about 30 yards of
Lonicera nidia hedge, and I'm replacing it with fruit-bearing stuff -
Fuchsia would improve the look of the front innit.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/garden.htm - and it is looking more
like one every day.

Enjoyed the tour, but my goodness you do have your hands full! It's such a
pretty house and it's going to reward you for all that hard work. Will you
plant blueberries?

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On Aug 17, 10:06 pm, Rusty Hinge wrote:
Hmmm. If either of us remembers, do you think you could spare a few
(uncooked!) pods, please? I'd like such a bush - well, several.

It's only common F. magellanica, but thinks it's a giant form and is
about 3m. high and across, despite having been severely hacked down
this spring. I'll happily do half a dozen or so cuttings for you if
you like. Assuming I remember by the time the rain stops

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Enjoyed the tour, but my goodness you do have your hands full! It's such a
pretty house and it's going to reward you for all that hard work. Will you
plant blueberries?

I have one small planter of them to date.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...gridge_001.jpg - on the
right, bang in front of the Pungent. The light-coloured blotch creeping
across the peat is a covering of small flat stones, so that a), you can
water it vigorously without disturbing the soil and b), it reduces
evaporation.

In 'Fruity Corner I have (amongst other things) a *BIG* planter with a
seven-foot hunza apricot (grown from a stone) and three cranberry
plants.

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Rusty
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from Dave Poole contains these words:
On Aug 17, 10:06 pm, Rusty Hinge wrote:

Hmmm. If either of us remembers, do you think you could spare a few
(uncooked!) pods, please? I'd like such a bush - well, several.

It's only common F. magellanica, but thinks it's a giant form and is
about 3m. high and across, despite having been severely hacked down
this spring. I'll happily do half a dozen or so cuttings for you if
you like. Assuming I remember by the time the rain stops

Please!

Shall I emu you my address? I take it that your address /\ up there works?

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Rusty
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On Aug 17, 7:55*am, Dave Poole wrote:
On Aug 16, 11:40 am, Rusty Hinge 2
wrote:

If you get enough pods/berries, you can use them for making jam and jelly.

I've got a huge F. magellanica out in the rear lane that flowers all
year round, but produces masses of berries mainly in late summer and
early autumn. *When I think about it, I collect them fully ripe and
slowly dry them in a low oven to produce Fuchsia 'raisins', which are
then bagged and frozen. *I use them as treats for my parrots, but
occasionally find myself nibbling a few as well. *Definitely not in
the same class as a fine muscat raisin, but decidedly edible
nonetheless.

I'm interested in this. I have a number of those as a side hedge in
our garden in the eastern part of the Midlands of Ireland, which were
cuttings taken from hedgerows in the West of Ireland. They are
flourishing, and I love the great value. Mine don't flower all year
round, but from June to November is pretty good flowering value in my
book, and I adore them.
I had always heard that they did not reproduce by seeds, but rather by
layering or some such, because they were a garden escapee from
Victorian times, originally from God Knows Where, and were not getting
enough heat/daylight hours/whatever else they need in late summer to
set seed. Fact is, all the flowers of mine drop before setting seed,
and this appears to be the norm in the hedgerows of Ireland where they
have naturalised also.
I always thought what I was dealing with was F. Magellanica.
Is what I had heard all codswallop?

Cat(h)