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05-21-2011, 09:31 AM | #1 |
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I know that this is probably one of the stupidest things you have ever read on this forum but I need to know something.
I'm currently in the process of doing up the back yard and have made a massive garden bed out of railway sleepers, filled it with clean dirt, soil and cow shit, planted palms, ground cover and also made a bird feeding post with a section on top for seed and water. I bought a huge amount of seeds to plant, Lavender, Kangaroo Paw, Salvia, Zinnia, Foxglove, Forget Me Not, Rockery Mixture, Catmint among others but was wondering... this may seem like a stupid question, but where do we get the seeds for these from? I mean, where does the seed come from within the actual flower or plant itself and can we actually gather seed for what we have grown and use that also? |
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05-21-2011, 09:49 AM | #2 |
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Almost every living thing, except some microscopic organisms produce seed, spores, or something to ensure reproduction. Hell, you will produce seed if you shake you wiener hard enough. In short, everything you grow will produce seed for the next season. I'm pretty sure some of the plants you mentioned will even come back with no help from you.
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05-21-2011, 09:52 AM | #3 |
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Yea but what I want to know is how do you get the seed from the plants and flowers that the original seeds form into.
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05-21-2011, 10:04 AM | #4 |
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With most flowers and ground cover there is no need to harvest seed, like I said they will come back on their own. With the most of the plants you probably bought a cutting, or an actual plant. That is how such items are transferred. I am not an expert on decorative plants, but I do keep a garden for vegetables. I grow tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, and banana peppers. All of those have visible seeds that I separate, and save when I harvest.
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son of destro always knocks my shorts off with the knowldge he has in his head. all this time, we all thought he was just a funny window installer..
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05-21-2011, 10:24 AM | #6 |
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Destro seems to be one cluey bugger, haha.
I had to go on YouTube to find this shit out, it took ages to find too, but the seeds come from the actual flower, one withered, you seperate the flower and pull the seeds out, you can have 100's of actual seeds within that dead flower. |
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05-22-2011, 01:17 PM | #7 |
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Depends on the plant. Some plants dont actually have seeds. HOWEVER, most do, and its pretty easy to get them actually.
Take your Lavender for example: The plant grows a stem, off the stem shoots a green thing with a bud. The bud turns into a flower and eventually dies. That green part stays on the stem after the flower drops off and later in the season the seed will be in there. Thats a seed head or pod. Go around in the fall and knock them out into your hand and spread them on the ground where you want them to grow the following year. No need to plant them, its how they naturally spread. Also, established plants will come back due to root systems too, when its a perennial. A perennial comes back every year. An annual lives one season (usually) and wont usually come back. Many things like potatoes are the seed. Store them in a cool dark place and plant them the following year to grow new potato plants. Onions do the same thing. Last edited by bigvig; 05-23-2011 at 03:17 PM.. |
05-22-2011, 05:32 PM | #8 |
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If you pull on the flower/plant long and hard enough you get seeds.......of course I’m just going on what happens when I do that to myself.
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