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- Tips for sowing the parrot plant
- Harvest the seeds
- The seeds stratify or not?
- Time for sowing
- Plant at a good location
- Tips
In autumn, the seeds of the parrot plant can be harvested
Tips for sowing the parrot plant
They are emerald-green, hang down numerous on the shoots and remind in their feathery-looking form budgerigars. Not only as a decoration are the fruits of the parrot plant to use. Their contained seeds are suitable for reproduction.
Harvest the seeds
The seeds of the poisonous parrot plant mature in the fall. When it has reached maturity, the peculiar fruits burst.Then it says: Be quick, otherwise the seeds with their silk-like threads are blown away by the wind. Not infrequently it comes then to self-sowing and successful germination from March of the following year.
The seeds stratify or not?
While one gardener thinks that one has to stratify the seeds of the parrot plant for a while, the other gardeners have come to the conclusion that they germinate without stratification (cold stimulation).
As a precaution, it is advisable to put the seeds in the fridge for about 1 week. There they are exposed to an artificial cold stimulus. Then you can pre-sow the seeds in water before sowing.
Time for sowing
Everything prepared? Then it can go:
At an ambient temperature between 15 and 20 ° C, these seeds germinate best and fastest. Depending on the temperature, brightness and age of the seeds germination takes place after 3 to 4 weeks (in rare cases already after one week).
Plant at a good location
So it goes on with the plantlets:
Tips
If you put a glass lid or a plastic hood over the seeds so that the moisture does not evaporate so quickly, you should aerate the seed box regularly to prevent mold growth.