How To Collect Petunia Seeds

How To Collect Petunia Seeds

Petunias today can be found everywhere. They are grown in gardens, planted on flower beds, various borders. They are decorated with vases, window sills, balconies. Petunia flowers are especially noteworthy in that there are completely different colors and shades, as well as all kinds of color combinations. On the one hand, petunias are quite unpretentious and extremely easy to care for, and on the other hand, any adverse weather conditions can adversely affect the growth and flowering of this plant. Petunias propagate mainly by seeds.

How To Collect Petunia Seeds

Instruction manual

1. If you grow petunia and want to collect seeds from your plant, you need to have some kind of information about how and when to do it. Surely, you know that in order for a flower to continue flowering, wilted flowers must be removed from it in a timely manner. But keep in mind that it is the wilted flowers of the petunia that contain the seeds of your future plants. That is why, at the beginning of flowering, immediately mark a few lower buds, where the seeds are likely to appear before the rest of the buds. Save these seed buds.
2. Petunia seeds themselves are very small, almost weightless. And from these tiny seeds grow such huge semi-shrub plants. Here, indeed, the wonders of nature. After choosing the buds from which you will collect the seeds, be patient. Petunia seeds ripen long enough. The period from the very beginning of the flowering of the bud to the full ripening of the seeds, when they can already be harvested, is two to three months. That is why it is necessary to choose the right buds as early as possible so as not to remove valuable flowers ahead of time and not to collect immature seeds.
3. Important for success is the choice of varieties of petunias. Most hybrid plants are very unstable in the offspring. It may turn out that either you cannot grow anything from the collected seed, or the flowers turn out to be of a different color or size, for example. That is, the result of your efforts to collect seeds and grow petunias will be a surprise to you. That is why, choosing hybrid varieties for growing, it is better to purchase seeds in specialized stores. The principle of self-collection of seeds from simpler varieties is described above.