By Joewood
United Kingdom
Grow fritillaries from the pods
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- 9 Jun, 2014
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To encourage you, I did this a couple of years ago with frits and they appeared again this spring. Still pretty small though, don't know how long it will take to flowering.
They are still in the original pot, a wide half one.
9 Jun, 2014
Can take up to five years for frits to get to flowering size if sown as seed.
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This advice is for Alliums, but it works the same for Frits too.
I have grown dozens of varieties of Alliums from seed over the last cough cough years. It is reasonably easy, but the bigger the bulb the longer the wait for flowers. So here goes
Sow the seed fresh. It germinates better straight from the plant rather than being dried off.
Cover lightly with grit, gravel or whatever rather than compost.
Sow in a deep pot rather than a seed tray (reasons later).
Leave exposed to weather. They need a period of cold followed by warmth to initiate germination.
When (if?) they germinate do not be in a hurry to p rick them out. This is the reason for deep pot rather than seed tray. They have only one root to begin with and if it is damage, it dies and a new one has to be produced from the base of the seedling. usually they die.
Feed the seed pot with dilute Baby Bio type stuff, until the leaves go yellow then allow the pot to dry off.
Repotting may be done when they are dormant. Some types never really go dormant so be careful.
I often do not repot until they have had another seasons growth. Remember many of them actually grow in late winter/early spring.
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