haighr said:Every year when I harvest zinnia seeds some are loaded with seeds while others I just can't seem to find one solitary seed?
Anyone else experience this? Seems some of the bigger flowers are loaded with seed and then another huge one will have none that I can find and the same with the smaller ones?
I've never seen that happen. Maybe it's just a difference in various types of zinnias (e.g. hybrids), or maybe I just wait longer to collect the seed heads. I leave them on the plant until the blossom is dry and brown, and the stem below is turning brown too.
I have better luck overall from narrow leaf ones (profusion and zahara). Other ones get too much powdery mildew and their seeds don't reliably produce seedlings even close to the parent plant. The profusions and zahara never get PM and always seem to produce identical babies to the mom both in plant size and flower color. If I take the time to nurture something I want to see something like this
Not this
Karen
