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Slightly off the topic but how does people sow ladybird poppy seeds. They are as fine as dust and don't even feel gritty between fingers. When I bought ladybird poppy plug plants earlier in the year there was one small plant to each capsule. How on earth was that achieved?
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You can mix the seeds with a paste (e.g a flour paste or wall paper paste which doesn't contain fungicide) so that they are well distributed though the paste, put it into a sandwich bag, cut a small hole in the corner and use it as a piping bag.
One they're growing pricked them out into individual modules.
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Would mixing them with some sand help?Location....East Midlands.Comment
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Mix with dry white sand, that way you can see if you are spreading them evenly, I have used the method that Jay-ell told you to try for larger seeds which can save having to thin out a lot, but never used it for fine seeds if you try it that way let me know how you get onit may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Thanks jay Bren and rary for stimulating thought. I didn't realise you can buy a wallpaper paste that didn't contain a fungicide, but no matter it would be easy to make a flour paste. Sounds a good idea but with a powder [which is what ladybird poppy seed basically is], would not the seeds/powder stay in batches or lumps in the paste?
With fine sand I've a feeling they might distribute better as all is dry.
Just my thoughts - I really don't know. I'm even thinking the slightest pinch of 'dust' allowed to fall over small flowerpots filled with compost might well work. Yes there will be a bunch of young plants come up but this bunch lifted with the compost and planted in the garden would do ok?? Would poppies not do ok in a bunch.
I just don't know. I'm still collecting the seed heads as they turn brown so I've a little time to think. Maybe I should try the paste method, the sand method and the 'bunch' method and see what works best.
Has anyone any experience with seeding ladybird Poppies? And should I try seeding them soon or wait till spring?Last edited by cheops; 08-09-2016, 08:49 AM.Comment
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When you have the bunch of tiny seedlings come up,carefully pot each one on into small pots. I don't touch the seeds when they're dust like,I feel like they'l absorb into my skin & disappear,I just pour some of them into a 3" pot,last year I had a huge amount of petunia seedlings in a pot,if you take time with surgical fingers it'l work out fine.Originally posted by cheops View Post
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if you take time with surgical fingers it'l work out fine.[/QUOTE]
Thanks Jane I'm no doctor but I'll try lol.
So I still need someone please to tell me to sow ladybird poppy seeds soon or wait till spring.Comment
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They are hardy annuals so they could be sown in autumn or spring. I would have a go at both.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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