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growing from seed – temperatur for germinating –
Hallo, bei einem anderen Forum hat jemand geschrieben, daß manche Paeoniensamen ihre Wurzel bei 20°C machen, andere aber bei 10°C. Letztere keimen nicht bei höheren Temperaturen. Hat jemand Informationen dazu, genauer: welche Arten sind die “kühlen”? Danke! Bernd
Peonies and ethylene
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Санни Герл – отклонение от нормы
Добрый день! Предыстория такая. Осенью после деления корня Санни Герл осталась не маленькая часть корня без глазков. Я этот слепой корень посадил так же как и остальные. Весна была холодная, лето опоздало. От этого корня росток появился с опозданием. Его листья не похожие на листья Санни Герл, они большие,...
Backgarden hybridizing and replanting disease
I’ve got two related questions about replanting disease because I hybridise on a pretty small piece of garden and my garden grows fuller exponentially with seedlings every year, competing for space. I might have to grow plant on lots where peonies have grown before. Does anyone know how some...
Early forcing of peonies (hoop houses and GA3)
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Placed to buy peonies online in Europe
Let’s share a list of online stores where peony lovers can order peonies online. https://dutch-bulbs.com/peonies/
A long term storage experiment, year 2
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Search photos of P. sterniana, sandrae, parnassica…
I’m a french amateur gardener for around 15 years and the late editor of the bulletin ‘Plantes de Montagne’ of the french alpine garden society: SAJA (Société des Amateurs de Jardins Alpins). I grow about 25 species and subspecies in the garden. I’m writing for our bulletin short articles...
Peonies from seed
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Statistics for stems/cultivar?
Are there any list with statistics or what to expect in order of number of stems per cultivar? Would be interesting to know how productive they are. Thinking of peonies for cut flower production.
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I saw it 🙂 Nice to see the roots and indeed they don’t seem to grow new roots from the crown. Would make a challenging candidate to divide… Pity about the deer eating it of course. I have planted a root received from Giessler in Germany which looked rather...
View post on imgur.com Not sure if anyone will see this, but a friend and I did dig up a P Brownii plant out of the woods last fall (It was her idea) to take home and see if it would grow for us. What we got seems to...
Thank you for the information you provided. I am still wrapping my mind around the fact that this will be a very long and rewarding process.
Hello, the humidity was always too high during the growing period in the hoop house, which should have caused many diseases, especially botrytis. Would you pay attention to the method of vegetable’s early forcing in hoop? To cover the whole ground in the hoop with mulching film, and let...
Thanks for your soon reply. You do try your best to find out many important details,such as “mow down on June 1st work fine”,GA3 does not help,etc. Itoh peonies do bloom quickly and have quite short vase life. Still there are some methods to extend the life of the...
Hello Linda, Yes I have. It has always worked, although some additional remarks can be made. One year I’ve cut them down in the same month three times, to spread the flowering time in Summer. Each 10 days later meant far fewer flowers. Here in Belgium peonies usually flower...
Dear Sir, Have you done the reblooming experiments from 2018 to 2021? Are there any new progress? Looking forward to your kind share.
I guess the three months in a warm spot was good. That will have broken the first dormancy of the roots. But these roots will normally only start growing at intermediate temperatures, thus somewhere 10-15°C, not at low temperatures in the refrigerator. At intermediate temperature, which is lower than...
I appreciate all of this amazing information. I am in the process of trying to germinate some Molly the Witch seeds. I had them in moist vermiculite for three months in a warm spot, three months in the refrigerator, and then I potted the seeds up according to the...
Hi Hanna, I read your question quite a while ago, and recently read this in Carol Deppe’s book Breeding your own vegetable varieties. Bob had the gist of it quite right. “The Cytoplasmic in Inheritance More than 99 percent of the genes in plants are arranged on chromosomes located...