By Urbanite
Leicestershire,
United Kingdom 
Hosta seeds. Does anybody bother growing hosta from seeds? I've just noticed that the seed pods on several of my hostas are beginning to split. I usually cut the flower stalks off before they set seed but didn't this year and now have lots of seed. I wouldn't expect any of them to come true but thought it might be fun to see what does grow.
5 Oct, 2014
Answers
Why not? What was wrong with them?
5 Oct, 2014
Mostly plain green, not variegated or different in any way to what I already had.
5 Oct, 2014
Oh that is a shame. I have seeds on my 'Big daddy' this year and was hoping to grow more of it. Out of interest do they need cold weather to germinate?
5 Oct, 2014
Don't think so. From memory I sowed them fresh and they germinated fairly soon afterwards. I think I kept some dry over winter and sowed them in Spring and again they germinated without any great amount of heat. Give it a whirl, you may get something worth having, just that it will not be exactly the same as Big Daddy
6 Oct, 2014
Thank you Owdboggy!
6 Oct, 2014
Have done it, in the past. None of the resulting plants were worth keeping though.
5 Oct, 2014