Germination Tips:
I planted seed of this during the early winter of 2003. I placed the seed in a peat pot filled with 3/4 potting soil and 1/4 vermiculite. The seed was pressed into the vermiculite and slightly covered.
The seeds had just begun to form roots on October 25, 2004. I potted them up into larger pots and have put them in my basement where hopefully the roots will continue to grow and I will have foliage by spring.
Fast forward to the spring of 2010. The young seedling has been growing in the front flower bed since 2005. I had one small pinkish colored bloom this spring. Hopefully the spring of 2011 will bring additional blooms.
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Thunbergia or Black-Eyed Susan Vine
Height: 6 to 8 feet
Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Time: Late spring to early fall
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Black Tacca - the bat plant.
Germination Tips:
Tacca was yet another plant whose seeds seemed to elude germination. Here is how I finally got seeds to germinate.
I sprinkled them on top of moist potting soil. I then sealed the container, keep it inside my house so that it would remain warm and waited.
The seeds germinated within a three month time period.
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First flowers from seed grown Brunfelsia americana.
On December 4, 2004 I began soaking fresh seeds. They were in the water for about four days before I planted them directly on top of some vermiculite.
On December 23, 2004 the seed germinated.
The first flowers appeared on April 28, 2009!
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This is more of a personal list than anything else. This list contains all of the germinated seeds that I have potted up intending to put into the garden this year.
Vegetables
18 Container Lettuce Ruby & Emerald Duet Plants
41 Cauliflower Purple Cape Plants
40 Baby Cabbage Pixie Plants
18 Broccoli Purple Peacock Plants
28 Tricolor Cherry Tomato Garden Candy Plants
41 Signature Salads Wild Country Mesclun Plants
6 Ace 55 Tomato Plants
11 Cabbage Copenhagen Market Early Plants
1 pot Scallions Delicious Duo – need divided once they are old enough
29 Wild Kale Garden Mix Plants
65 Container Lettuce Sweet Baby Romaine Plants
19 Flat Late Dutch Cabbage Plants
22 Cauliflower Rainbow Mix Plants
19 Broccoli Long Harvest All Season Blend Plants
37 Broccoli Heading Romanesco Plants
9 Brussels Sprouts Seven Hills Plants
21 Beefsteak Tomato Plants
29 Spinach Bloomsdale Plants
7 Summer Lettuce Bouquet European Reds & Greens Plants
19 Heirloom Tomato Summer Feast Plants
9 Container Chard Pot Of Gold Plant
7 Mexican Tomatillo Two Color Fiesta Plants
1 Container Lettuce Garden Babies Butterhead Plant
1 Onion Spanish Utah Plants
10 Heirloom Tomato Rainbow’s End Plants
18 Kale Glamour Red F1 – 2011 All-American Selections
4 Tomato Sub-Arctic Plenty VF Plants
11 Tomato Terenzo F1 – 2011 All-American Selections
Flowers
11 Stock Giant Imperial Plants
9 Echinacea Powwow Wild Berry Plants – 2010 All-American Selections Winner
4 Bells of Ireland Antique Apple Green Plants
3 Hollyhock Pom-Pom Apricot-Peach Parfait Plants
17 Statice Plants
32 Geranium maderense Plants
6 Dianthus Allwoodi x Village Pink Plants
2 pots Snapdragon Tall Deluxe Mix – need divided once they are old enough
1 pot Amole – need divided once they are old enough
5 individual Amole Plants
3 Gaillardia aristata Arizonia Apricot – 2011 All-American Selections Winner
2 Stock 10 Week Bouquet
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Start Moluccella (Bells of Ireland) seed in damp paper towels and refrigerate until germination occurs.
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Start seeds of tomatillos and moluccella (bells of Ireland) seeds in flats. Plant crocosmia tubers in the greenhouse for July harvest.
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Start seeds of impatiens, achillea, petunia, wax begonia and gerbera daisy in flats. Plant anemone bulbs in a greenhouse for April harvest.
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