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Love those salmon zinnias! If I see any plants that colour, I will buy some. In the meantime, I've planted seeds for the lovely purple and "carousel" seeds that I received in the Cdn swap last year. They were SO pretty. I've also planted the "early wonder mix" that came in the swap this year so thanks to the donors
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Mine are planted but not up yet. The monarchs coming through the yard are yelling at me.
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Drenthe, The Netherlands
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I'm growing California Giants I got in a simple ziplock bag. So no instructions. Of course I can google them but then I found this thread.
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: El Lago, Texas
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Good luck with your California Giants. I'm not growing any that are as tall as yours will be.
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Join Date: Feb 2018
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I'm going to be a bit late getting mine going as there will soon be no room on the light shelves until the peppers go out to harden.
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Can't you just start them in cell packs or whatever individual little plastic pots and just leave them outside? I seeded numerous large pots with zinnias seeds and left mine outside. All of the seeds have sprouted by now.. I'm not transplanting the seedlings... they will be growing to maturity in the pots. Surely it must be warm enough where you live by now. Or is it?
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Donna, Zone 9, Texas Gulf Coast Last edited by SpookyShoe; April 5, 2019 at 08:50 PM. |
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Join Date: Feb 2018
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This week we'll have 80's but April beings cold snaps too. I don't like to set summer stuff out in the garden before the end of April because there will always be one more frost. That means the hassle of covering up a lot of stuff for a night or two and, just call me lazy, I just don't want to mess with that. ![]() |
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Woohoo mine are up! I’m too slow for all the hungry monarchs though.
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One year I grew some tall zinnias I bought at a nursery. As the flowers matured their colours changed and the back sides of the petals developed a green colour. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Name?
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Well, you would know your weather a lot better than I do. LOL.
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Donna, Zone 9, Texas Gulf Coast Last edited by SpookyShoe; April 7, 2019 at 12:13 PM. |
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Really nice, Spooky!
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Thanks!
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Join Date: Feb 2018
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Just gorgeous! And "hot" is the operative word.
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They're supposed to get about a foot tall, but mine don't even get that tall.
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Spooky, I got to thinking about what you said and I've decided to just go ahead and start those zinnias this week. We just might be in for an early spring even though there will be one more small cold spell sometime before the end of the month. Thanks!
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