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Name: Trish Jacksonville, TX (Zone 8a)              |
| Karen, It looks like you started these seeds indoors (as opposed to winter sowing them). Any tips? Stratify? Bloom the first year? I'm excited to get going on these!  NGA COO, Wife, Mom, and caretaker of 90 acres and all that dwell there. |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a)           kqcrna Jan 17, 2015 2:48 PM CST |
| Trish, I did start them inside, using just vermiculite. I first learned of that method from an article that @JonnaSudenius posted here on ATP. I found my old thread about it: The thread "Sowing in vermiculite" in Seeds forum Karen |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Jan 17, 2015 2:53 PM CST |
| Trish, thinking about your warm climate, so different from mine, you probably have lots of options for starting echinaceas: traditional indoors under lights, or in plain vermiculite, or wintersowing... I've wintersown echinaces several times with good results, but in my cold climate, they sprout kind of late, grow slowly in cool spring weather, and don't usually bloom until the second year. Cheyenne Spirit bloom the first year, but if I wintersowed them, I don't know that they would bloom before the second year. Your warm weather would be more agreeable. Karen |
Name: Jonna Belgium, Europe (Zone 6a)       JonnaSudenius Jan 18, 2015 1:58 AM CST |
| I renewed my website, so the link changed: http://www.seedsite.eu/article... |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Jan 18, 2015 4:58 AM CST |
| Thanks again, Jonna! Karen |
Name: Trish Jacksonville, TX (Zone 8a) |
Thanks, Karen! Seems like I'll be fine either way.  I've grown Echinacea from seed before, but not the Cheyenne Spirit. I was just curious if you had found better sucess with starting them indoors than WS them. I appreciate the input!!  NGA COO, Wife, Mom, and caretaker of 90 acres and all that dwell there. |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Jan 18, 2015 12:36 PM CST |
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Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Jan 21, 2015 11:49 AM CST |
I sowed these echinacea seeds on January 12, in plain vermiculite. Photo taken today. Karen |
Name: Trish Jacksonville, TX (Zone 8a) |
| You are ahead of me! They look great!! NGA COO, Wife, Mom, and caretaker of 90 acres and all that dwell there. |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Jan 21, 2015 3:40 PM CST |
| The vermiculite works great with echinaceas. Karen |
Name: Trish Jacksonville, TX (Zone 8a) |
| I have plenty, so I might as well give it a go. NGA COO, Wife, Mom, and caretaker of 90 acres and all that dwell there. |
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