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How long do you keep before planting the seeds? If you clip them and "jarminate" them, you can plant them quite soon after germinating. So, are we dry storaging these seeds until then, with no stratification, or are we still refrigerating them until we prepare them by clipping and keeping them moist until germination? and then planting them in the ground when large and tough enough.
And what month, or early spring, mid-spring, or later? do we put them in the ground or a pot, to bloom when? Sorry, but I was trying to cover all the bases and be thorough and making certain of complete understanding.
Thank you so much for this ingenious method! I'd love to try it! What is shown in the video is Asclepias syrica (Common Milkweed) but would it also work with seeds from Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)? Just wondering, as I think the Butterfly Weed seeds may be a bit more rounded......
I'm planning to clip some milkweed seed that I recently collected from a newly opened seed pod. I want to bypass the stratification requirement . Thanks for the information on a different video. 😊
I grew common milkweed from seedlings taken from city garden beds. From 4 seedlings, it multiplied to ten grown plants in a standard bucket this year! Bizarrely, none of them flowered in June compared to wild ones in vacant lots, ditches, etc. All have nice green leaves, just zero bloom ! I suspect the bucket's size, perhaps too small to accomodate 10 big milkweed roots... Perhaps that much is too much. 🤔
Thanks to you my milkweed seeds have spouted successfully. They are 2" tall after about 9 days, but very thin, just seedlings. Can you advise me as to how much sun I should be giving these? I am doing this indoors, and have a sunny window. I don't want to burn them by leaving them in the sunny window too long. Been experimenting with an half hour in 2 or 3 segments each day, trying to add more sunshine time each day. Still too fragile to put outside. My thanks
Wow, thanks, it works perfectly! Greetings from Poland c: I germinated some asclepias incarnata "cinderella" (which is not considered invasive in Poland - contrary to the common milkweed)
Thank you I apart different type of milkweed seeds, and on two packs, it says cold stratification is required so I will have to wait till fall with these two types? Rose and showy It’s a butterfly milkweed, and the common milkweed it says cold stratification is recommended. I would be thankful if I get your input.
I've currently got my seeds in a moist paper towel in a zip lock bag on the fridge to cold stratify the seeds. Can I still clip them when I take them outta the fridge? (according to my instructions, 30 days) great video! :)
When do you take off the plastic wrap? I followed the link and read those instructions also, but the instructions jumped from the seeds covered with plastic to seedlings growing out beyond the mouth of the jar.
Thanks, I have a container garden and my native narrow leaf and showy milkweeds never make it in pots but I didn't think of leaving them in their germination pot..I will try that this time :)
PLEASE POST AGAIN and teach us how to take care of monarch caterpillars PLEASE Your channel helped me so much! My common milkweed has arlready started growing buds
Omg I been doing this wrong!! I done this 3 times and nothing I just notice u said conmen milkweed I been doing the butterfly milkweed orange one in California in March they been in jar 3 weeks and no luck! I have common I will try it again
Great video and growing tips. I will give that a go. I usually put the seeds into small pots with very fine soil mixed with sand. Keep moist and when small plants form. push the lot out of the small pots and put in larger container for them to grow. Will make a video over the next few days.
So the jug milkweed gets transplanted into individual pots to harden off after the last frost before they go in the ground or can they just go in the ground?
So if im planting from the milk jug out side, how long do you wait before you transplant into the yard? (Raised beds) just keep an eye on them outside and transplant when the container is over crowded?
I wait until the roots start to develop little white knobs on them and then transplant. They will remain happy in the jugs for a long time into early summer, though. I just take the top off once the plants start touching it.
How big should they be before they can go outside? I have come into several packs of seeds from a Monarch group in Cape May, NJ. I'm excited to get a bunch going in the spring.
If you can wait until spring to plant them, I would recommend that. Otherwise, get them into the ground as soon as you can before winter so their roots can get further established!
Does this work for Florida swamp milkweed ? Never works for me once I put them in the soil after and the roots never germinate much when they’re in the water only a little bit of white comes out I see some where people have huge roots … :(
I received some milkweed seeds, and not knowing much about growing these, I came across your video after watching several others. I thought, "I can do this!" I followed your instructions and am thrilled to report that germination was a success just 2 days after clipping the seeds and soaking them! Now, a week after planting, I have many little baby milkweed plants ❤ Thanks, Lumberjill!
