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Collecting holyhock seeds
Have grown some beautiful holyhocks this year and i'm wondering what the best method is for storing the seeds? will a plastic sandwich bag with a zip-loc do?
I'm assuming collecting them is much the same way as foxgloves, wait till the seedpod is brown and wrinkled? Thanks for your help |
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Tiger303 wrote:
Have grown some beautiful holyhocks this year and i'm wondering what the best method is for storing the seeds? will a plastic sandwich bag with a zip-loc do? I'm assuming collecting them is much the same way as foxgloves, wait till the seedpod is brown and wrinkled? Thanks for your help Not really, plastic won't let the seeds 'breathe'. Paper envelopes would be best. -- "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:02:12 +0100, Tiger303
wrote: Have grown some beautiful holyhocks this year and i'm wondering what the best method is for storing the seeds? will a plastic sandwich bag with a zip-loc do? No No No! Never store seeds in plastic. They will go mouldy. Put them in a paper bag or envelope and keep them somewhere dry and not too warm. Good luck with them. The seeds ave pretty well as long as they are ripe. Pam in Bristol |
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In article , Tiger303
writes Have grown some beautiful holyhocks this year and i'm wondering what the best method is for storing the seeds? will a plastic sandwich bag with a zip-loc do? I'm assuming collecting them is much the same way as foxgloves, wait till the seedpod is brown and wrinkled? Thanks for your help -- Tiger303 I store seeds in the little brown wages envelopes, then packed into a plastic box (recycled 2 litre ice cream packaging), and kept in a refrigerator. This seems to work - some ten year old seeds (Digitalis purpurea, Centaurea cyanus, Lavatera trimestris) thrown down in my father's garden earlier this year germinated quite happily. OTOH, Allium aflatunense didn't. Technically hollyhocks don't have seed pods - the mature fruit is enclosed by the dried calyx, and is a schizocarp, i.e. composed of separate mericarps ("nutlets"). In the case of hollyhocks these are flattened, with an enclosing wing, and contain a single seed - functionally these can be treated as if they were seeds. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley http://www.malvaceae.info/ |
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Tiger303 wrote:
Have grown some beautiful holyhocks this year and i'm wondering what the best method is for storing the seeds? will a plastic sandwich bag with a zip-loc do? I'm assuming collecting them is much the same way as foxgloves, wait till the seedpod is brown and wrinkled? Thanks for your help -- Tiger303 That was good advice from Pam & Jon. If possible, I would suggest that you store your seeds in the fridge, but not the freezer. About a quarter of my fridge is taken up with seeds - this is what fridges are for! Wishing you the best of luck, John |
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