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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: manicscousers on June 21, 2008, 16:51:46

Title: agapanthus query ?
Post by: manicscousers on June 21, 2008, 16:51:46
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 ?
Title: Re: agapanthus query ?
Post by: ceres on June 22, 2008, 00:01:03
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.
Title: Re: agapanthus query ?
Post by: jeanaustin on June 22, 2008, 07:52:09
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! 
Title: Re: agapanthus query ?
Post by: Palustris on June 22, 2008, 09:16:30
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.