How to Grow Growing Calla Lilies Lily from Seed- From Collected Saved Calla Lily Seeds 

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This video is old, but learning something new never gets too old. Thanks for sharing.

I just found my calla lily had seeds. So it help me a lot I live in Zanesville Ohio. I keep them in my garage during the winter not much water in the winter very little. The first year I was surprised they come up this year I had so many was getting to many in the pot so am taking a chance so I put them in another pot. They looked like a tube. I had about 15 or more. Was the first I every saw one that was in pot lots of roots. Will try to save the seeds. Note: am 87 years & not good at E mails.

Hello, I live in Texas. I purchased a Calla Lily, 7 years ago and it was about 6 inches tall. When I bought it, I didn't even know what it was or supposed to look like when grown fully. I just knew i like the big leaves with white spots and looked nice. I planted it in the garden in the back yard in 2013. Since then it has grown back every year with more stalks and and taller but it never bloomed until now (2020) and the bloody thing is about 3 feet tall! Its absolutely gorgeous with its huge bright yellow flowers. I had no clue the thing was supposed to bloom! Who knew?

I live in upstate Ny (zone 5). I am NOT a grower, or a farmer, or anything ... I just love callas, and my husband buys them for me whenever they are available here. Well, I had a few plants that were "expired". they were done growing in the house and I would normally throw the plant out. lol, the "expired" plant blew into our creek. They have grown there repeatedly now for the last 5 years! I never bring them up or bring them in over our tough NY winters. The latest plants he bought me seeded! I never saw that before. I stumbled across Bernard's video, and have harvested the seeds (first time!), and followed your instruction to try to grow them on my own. (Boy, will that save my hubby some money, lol). wish me luck, and TYSM for the education!!!

Beautiful video I really love seeing the growing of these seeds and wish I have calla lillies flowers of my own and starting a beautiful garden..how lucky you are..thanks for this video

I LOVE this video!I had just by coincidence watched Bernard's video right before finding yours.Was excited that he did send a viewer some seeds.I can't wait to do this with my plant!Thank you for the video, very interesting. Isn't nature fascinating!!!

This method works, after planting in the small pots, wow grew up beautifully

Hi Thanks for your video. I live in zone 7a and about two years ago we planted a multi colored Calla lily with spotted leaves that had flowers. We had a previous one with beautiful black flowers but the squirrels I feed dug em up to eat 🤬.. Anyway, this time I planted it two inches deeper and last year it had one huge flower that was red-ish purple and this year two different colored flowers and the plant is about four feet tall if not four and a half and the flowers last a few months. Last year I made the mistake of lightly tying the flower to a dried stalk to keep it from drooping and now I've learned that the flower droops to let the seeds dry out and eventually the seeds fall to the ground. By keeping the flower upright all the seeds became molded. I had been looking on-line for a solution to keeping the ground around the bulbs warm so not to disturb the plant and I came across Ground Warming rods that use very little electricity so I plan on ordering a few. Last year I had used a frost king electrical pipe warmer and they use about one watt of electricity per foot and it was about ten feet in length so ten watts and it worked along with a small garage can placed upside down over the plant. Suggestion I've watched a few RU-vid videos on starting seeds using the paper towel with zip lock bags method and I noticed you soak the paper towel now from what I've seen most use about one or two pump sprays of water and then place the seeds and paper towel in the bag as the bag is sealed up the water won't evaporate. I was afraid your seeds might have molded but they didn't and thats great. Again Thank you for the video it was super appreciated. Eddie J.

Thanks for reminding me of the paper towel to germinate the seeds ! WOOO!

Hands down, best video with updates and everything. Love it.. thank you for sharing. I'm starting my own calla seeds soon.

I am in zone 7B and mine winter over very well.Also, I purchased mine bare root and it bloomed the following year.They are beautiful flowers.Good luck to you, hope they grow!

I am in Alabama, zone 7B and my cala lilies winter just fine.I am also planning to grow some from seeds I collected.They are a beautiful flower!

Thanks for sharing Diane,...I really like your videos.

I have always direct sowed them, much easier and I think they do much better overall.. thank you!

Yes ! I just saw one seed sprouted , my dear , you dont know how happy i am. I left the other seeds in the water , maybe they wil sprout and give me more plants. Its indeed very fun and satisfying to do. God bless !

thanks for sharing...now I know what to do

Hi Diane, I live in Bloomfield N.Y. and about 4 years ago a friend gave me a few white calla Lily bulbs. She told me to bring them in for the fall and winter months, so I did. I gave my sister the ones I took out. I must have left something in the soil because every year The Beautiful Green leaves with the white dots show up. This year It grew to about 2 1/2 feet high and produced 2 lilies for the first time. Each year I have been cutting them to the soil level , covering them with a bit more soil. Now I see the flowers have the seed pods inside. My Area is gardening zone 5b and 6a , and still they come back every year. I Love this video because i didn't quite know what to do with the seeds, I saw a your friend Burts video first about the seed separation and how to get the seeds. and your video was so helpful for the rest. The seed pods are still green and I have set them on cardboard and dry paper towel to dry them before i will be extracting the seeds . I find it odd that the one that kept growing in this climate has come back every year. Now i have 2 large green seed pods !! So excited. Thank you !! Happy Gardening :)

Wow, i love these lilies, and im taking your advice on growing my own. Thank you for sharing your videos

Thanks! ☺

awesome, thankyou!

I have my calla lilies in my pond:-) They love the water where i have koifish in! Great video!

We are in Tn - zone 7 and our Cala lilies come back every year and I never pull them up Collected the pods for the first time last fall and I’m taking the seeds out and now going to grow more from seed Thanks

thank you..

Hello i am Braziliam and watching your vídeo now 2021 very cool

you did find my other video.. thanks for all the info.. idk the video got kinda long but it shows a lot and hopefully people will watch...

I cut off the seed pods and separate the seeds when a little dried. Then I spread them in the gardens. I don’t bury deep so no real digging. They come up next year. Some green solid leaves and some white spotted leaves. Sometimes they bloom year one and some times year three but the plant is nice white waiting for a bloom. They are all white flowers. I don’t know what to say, no work at all. I dunno. I have about 70 blooming. I live in northern CA but no snow. Presently I have a couple hundred seeds so I’m going for it! Lol

I have been growing Calla Lillie's in AZ for 13 years (same plant) they winter outside (we are zone 8), they need partial shade in the middle of summer. I got my first seed pods last year, picked them off and let them dry out in the house, air is dry here. My seeds are smaller than yours. I am going to try to grow the seeds for the first time too. Thanks for the video, it will be a big help!

I like the pink and geeens

Thanks for a great informative video. I’m in zone 6A, just south of Lake Ontario in New York State. A few years ago as an experiment I left a Calla in the ground; he white variegated leaf variety. It has come up and blossomed every year since. I have also grown the white flowered variegated green leaf variety from seed and they all came true to the mother plant.

Thank you!

Great video. I'm in Ohio and tried some seeds. I actually cut into the seeds so the water gets inside the seeds. It will germinate them in just a few days. I then soaked mine in water for 2 days them the wet paper towel method. Mine flowered the first year. 2 seeds gave me 19 bulbs for the following year. I'm in Ohio, zone 6a so I have to lift the bulbs before winter too.

I live in Zone 10, and the coldest it ever gets around here is about the low-30s, but that's even rare. Winter temps in my area are around 40 degrees-ish. My mom's Calla Lilies have been in the ground for years now, and they survive the winter just fine. They're very hardy, & go thru dormant stages where they wilt and thin out for a while, then go right back to gaining density, and tend to flourish with very little care. If you want to divide the plant, they're resistant to transplant shock.

love your video

so first of all id like to thank you for the videos .. i used to do this method for a while. but the faster and best way a good bulb in a xxl bucket placed 4 inches down good fertilizer in a year you will have about 5 baby bulbs to seperate and grow from there own pots plus youll have the seeds to .... the quickest ive ever had seed to bulb was a little over 23 months . cheers

Thank you

I’m in Zone 6B and have had Cala Lilies for years that overwinter very well. I do grow them close to our house, so that may keep them warmer. For years we covered them w/extra leaves, but found now that they don’t really need it.

I arrived here because my yard has more & more volunteer calla lilies & I was wondering about the "corn cobs" that are now on some of them. I'm in the very fertile zone 9b & intend to plant from seed more "intentionally" but I may wait until autumn. Thanks for the info!

I am in zone 6 (detroit area) mine winter wonderfully. I pull b4 first frost, dry a few weeks, box in peat moss till spring. this is my 3rd year planting and they finally flowered for me. I was delighted to see I have one huge Yellow and two beautiful red. This is my first year to get the seed pods. Your video was the perfect length to show me how to germinate my seeds. also found a video on how to remove the seeds while still soft, easier to remove. Cant wait to try.it took 3 mos roughly right?

Like you they would have to be lifted here for the winter. I grew them once in pots but the corms/roots rotted over the winter. I guess a lot of lilies take a while to bloom from seed. I have Canada Lilly -Lilium canadense, native wild flower, which was grown from seed and it bloomed last year for the first time, took 5 years. Just breaking through the soil now I only got one bloom last year and no seed pod hope I get seed this year I want to try starting more so I can naturalize them.

I live in Upstate NY and I have 2 VERY large Spotted Calla Lily groups. I say groups bc I planted a single bulb I purchased from Lowe's, it developed some kind of spore pouch due to the weed killing mulch I had and I thought it died. 3 YEARS later I have 2 separate ares with 37+ stems in each group that grow to about 4ft tall! I do NOT prune them or bring them inside. Gardening experts are shocked that not only do they survive the bipolar NY weather with almost no consistant sunshine but it multipled they way it did! The oddest part is that the other area they showed up in was NOWHERE near the original planting site! I wish I could attach photos.

I read that the white callas only really like water and can with stand a lot of water but the colored ones are more prone to drought and do better in sun and not as much water. Don't know if this is planting them from seed or bulbs. I bought three plants this past spring: one white, one pink and a deep purple color. They all did well and now the flowers remaining are starting to grow the seed pods inside of them. I'm going to wait till they get bigger before harvesting them but I am going to try to grow some from seed and living in WV (not sure what zone that is) I'm going to dig up the bulbs and store them inside through the winter. Thanks for the video! I'm learning!! :)

Live in Dallas. Grow yellow flowers. They come back every year. They used to be under a tree but lost the tree in a storm so now in direct sun. In August some of the leaves turn a little yellow but as long as I keep it watered it does fine.

I am in zone 7A and they come up every year. They get morning to mid-day sun and they are beautiful.

Good to know I've been throwing them away, and I have beautiful orange and pink ones

Hi Diane, good morning...So today i took 2 totes with covers, and planted on the top of the soil 321 calli lillies seeds. Yup call me crazy, but between your video and navajopa31. I got hooked. My seeds came from about 6 pods from last fall. So i hoping and praying that i get something out of all of them.

I'm from just south of Rome in Italy and I have 4 calla lilly plants that produce over and over the most beautiful white flowers. I'm certainly going to follow your instructions here to grow more plants have produced lots of seeds. Greetings from Italy.

I’m in 6a and they overwinter fine for me. This is the first year I’ve collected seeds off them.

Wow this was very interesting. I do not mind long videos...it is like visiting with a friend & learning something new. I just recently did a video on repotting a little plant I got in Utah last summer & brought it back home with me. The little tag got lost & I forgot what the plant was. Well I repotted it & I do believe (with others help) I remebered it was Calla Lily? Is this the same as "Peace" Lily? The ones that they grow with the Beta Fish in a glass vase? My plant is doing great. ~RedBerry

I've had mine in the ground for 20 years. I never lift them. I'm in zone 6b in western KY.

We live 6a and they come back every year.

so zone 5b would too cold to grow such a flower ? they look nice thanks for sharing.

hola Diane...cada año hay que sacar los bulbos de las calla lilys despuès de la floraciòn??

Great video thank you! Have you got an update video of how they are doing now? 😍

Zone 7a my calla lilies over winter in the ground and multiply on their own. I may collect the seeds and try to propagate in the paper towels. Thanks!

I have the Tucan yellow flower and the seeds look like a black pea it has a hard shell.

My seed pods fell off of the plant while still green. Can I dry them and then try to germinate?

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no it is a different plant in itself... I have both! :)

We live in Zone 5 and ours wintered over. We didn’t know you were supposed to dig them up!

I've planted the seeds for the first time this year. I've got them from my adult Calla Lily, which has orange flowers and leaves with white dots. The sprouts are still young (1 leaf), so it's hard to tell how they will look like when adults. But for now the leaves has no dots. I've also seen that in the vase of the adult Calla this year there are new sprouts without the dotted leaves (maybe it has made new rhizomes, but why different?), together with the old ones with dots. This has made me wonder if the Calla lilies that I will obtain from the seeds will ever look like the adult one. Will they keep the same type of leaves and the same flowers?

I’m in 7b and last winter was mild and they came back but this winter we had 8 inches of snow for a week. They did not make it. After I saw your video, I went out there and found the seeds! I had no clue. Thank you! Did your friend mention how he got the seeds out of the hard shell?

calla or arum lily's will thrive in wetlands, semi shade. bulbs/risoom will grow and flower in 1 year if planted in a water logged pond bog filter box with continuous water flow and fish nutrients. native to South Africa with a Mediterranean climate

now, at what age do they form the bulb?

I grow yellow ones in northeast Ohio near Warren Ohio

At what point do stop watering the young shoots for three months like i do with my grown up calla lilies?

Great video, but can you tell me if they need a cold period (stratification) to germinate?I've watched all of navajopa's videos and searched the Internet and can't find the answer.Thanks again!

Zone 7 overwinter well here. Partial sun. Full sun is too hot for mine. I only have yellow and pink. I want to expand colors

I take calla lily seeds 11 October.. how many days r need for germination??

It does take time to clean them but I will try them ( Ohio)

I am Zone 6, just south of Kansas City. My calla lilies come up every year. I don't know what I did "right," but I AM NOT moving them or changing anything!

What kinda soil mix or fertilizer you used?

how long did it take to bloom the flowers for you?

Did you ever do an update on these canna lilies? It’s been a few years, how did they do?

I pulled a bunch of pods off my purple non variegated calla after the stems flopped over and dried. I brought them inside and let them dry out. I hope I didn’t ruin them. I wonder if they are still viable? I’m in zone 8b .

saw on another video, white like water, colored dont?

Hi Diane, what kind of soil did you use? Thanks

I grow them in zone 6

How do i get the black shell off without damaging the seed?

When is the best period to start the seeding and planting? i collected seeds last summer, and I have them in a cool dry location.

Did you scar them first before putting them in the paper towels?

I live in Calif and Calla lilies grow like weeds. Actually hard to get rid of them, they take over

Hi! I got three out of four to germinate. I have 1/2 inch white sprout. I am ready to put into soil. Do I plant with the white sprout up or pointing down in the soil???

Can we use tissue paper instead of paper towel

I tried the paper towel method and they molded. What did I do wrong?

What are you using to plant your seeds in??

I don’t know what zone I’m in , I live in Toronto Ont my question is I have them in a pot now what do I do with them in the winter . They all sprouted from seeds

Gd day .where can we purchase call lily seeds?

hi, I would like to see an update it's been 3 years since this video was posted. I would like to know if they flowered.

Did the seeds have to go through a stratification period of some sort? Or can you just plant them directly after harvest?

Hello i am live in Philippines , how to buy your calla lily seeds ?? I want to buy to yours seeds

What the status on this calls lily?

Ma'am where can I buy calla Lily seeds

I like to know if anyone sells seeds? Please let me know. Thanks

now tell me diane, when you put the cover over them, you don't make a hole or anything in the cover? I thought they needed a little air? the two little greenhouses I bought in lowes had little vents that you could adjust how much air flow.....but I see that you just cover? no air?

I only have the pink Calli Lilies with solid green. If anyone can spare some other color seeds, I would greatly appreciate it. Lisa Soland, PO Box 32381, Knoxville, TN 37930. Thanks!

The seeds i got are super tiny... 😬 I guess it's not Calla lily😳😳😳😭😭😭😭

hi my name is Roxy. love the videos. im wondering if you can look at my video its called bonsai plants if you can tell me what kind of bonsai plants i am planting thanks