Topic: agapanthus query ?

[manicscousers]

these were sown in february, grown very slowly to this size and stopped, the leaves look very healthy, anyone grown them from seed, how did they go ?

[ceres]

I wonder if perhaps you're being too nice to them.  They grow like weeds in our garden and self-seed freely.  Their favourite places are jammed together in hot dry areas like  cracks in concrete and between slabs.  When I grow them from seed, I keep them crowded and on the dry side in good light with multiple seeds in pots and I don't prick out until they're fighting their way out.  Then I pot on into individual pots that are a size smaller than they need.

[jeanaustin]

My Agapanthus seedlings sown earlier this year are about the same size as yours - I have mine in small pots and keep them crowded and then pot on.  Be Warned - they take about four or five years to flowering! 

[Palustris]

We lose a good 50 percent of seedlings over winter, even under cover. Outdoors we lose them all, even establsihed ones, even planted at the base of a south facing wall in well drained soil. The seedlings from about 4 years ago are just beginning to flower in the frames.