Last year I did a little bit of Winter Sowing. Just some Petunias and some Hosta (Dorothy Benedict x OP). Winter Sowing involves planting seeds in small transparent plastic flats and putting them outside for the Winter. In the Spring you get some nice tiny little plants. I had some success with this and I will do it again for Annuals that I want for next Spring.
This year I will do that, but also I will do some Indoor Sowing as well. I bought a 4 foot plant light from Amazon and I will sow some Hosta from streaked parents as well as a few annuals that might not do well with the Winter Sowing method as above. Today I sowed some Hosta seed for indoor growing. Here are the seeds:
- Lakeside Knicknack x OP (open pollinated)
- Lakeside Breeder #4 x OP
- Epsom Derby x OP (a gift from Rick Goodenough from his garden)
- William Lachman x OP
My goal this year is to look to get some streaked Hostas that I can use for breeding my own plants. I got two Streakers from the DBxOP seeds last year. I hope to get about 30% streaked Hostas (that's the average) from these seeds. Plus I'll keep anything that looks architecturally interesting to me out of this group. I've sown about 30 seeds per package, except for the seeds from Rick of which I sowed about double that. It will keep me busy during the Winter months keeping these seedlings going.
I've also planted two different Hippeastrum (aka Amaryllis) and some Paperwhite Narcissus for indoor plants this winter. Here's a pic of Hippeastrum 'Charisma' which just bloomed today.
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| Hippeastrum 'Charisma' |
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