GREAT information! I especially appreciated how you showed what the actual SEED looked like. I thought it was the entire spikey part. Now I'll know what to look for. Also, what are the YELLOW flowers shown in the upper right screen above the echinacea flowers?
HI there, zone 3-9.. hmm.. maybe it is soil issue.. don't know.. maybe mulch late fall.. I have some growing on a dry hill and it seems to love it there.. they sure can handle drought..
Thank you for this great video. I am wondering if these seeds need cold stratification like poppy seeds do? I put mine in the refrigerator until next planting season. Maybe these seeds too?
you are welcome, While not required, Coneflower seeds can benefit from a special 8 to 12 week treatment called cold moist stratification prior to planting them.
I collected some this year and I thought the black ones were the seeds so thank you for showing what the seed actually is! Can I just scatter them in my garden in Fall or should I wait until spring? Zone 6B Thank you!
A lot of the hybrid colors of echinacea don’t give seeds that will grow the same color, the seeds will grow to purple flowers.. would have to divide the parent at the root
Hi Michelle, all the seeds I germinated this last year did grow into the purple cone flowers... there was one echinacea that did not germinate at all so maybe sterile seeds, not sure.. but yes if hybrid they can take on other colors.. 👍🏻
Question: can you just toss the whole spiked round ball into some compost and new plants will grow from that? I think about how this happens in the field -- the flower droops, the spiked round core eventually reaches the ground but the seeds are not plucked off it. It just lays there. Is there something in the core that the seeds will feed from if left intact with the round core? Like in the same way a walnut shoot grows from the nut? Your thoughts?
I imagine it is possible however have not experimenting in this way so I do hate to say if it would work or not.. I just say try it and see what happens..
