HUNTING INFORMATION ON CANNA BULBS..

I JUST PLANTED 3 ORANGE ONES.....DO PESTS EAT THE FLOWERS? LIKE BEATLES? I AM ASSUMING THEY MUST BE LIFTED AND STORED IN THAT FALL IN ZONE 5?

TELL ME HOW .

THANKS FOLKS .

DODGE

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ditto what netty said.
I'd just like to add that I stored mine in peat, in a cardboard box in a closet in the basement. Started them up again about a month ago, and they are growing strong in 5 gallon pots.

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I hope you gave them plenty of room. I was suprised at how they multiple even in one year.

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peppereater,

Gees thanks....

Now these are orange, an said they bloom all summer? Are there other colors?
How wide do they spread?

Dodge

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Try and find some of the tropicana canna if you can. Talk about some of the pretties foliage you ever want to see on a canna these are it. They are multi-colored stripes. You don't even have to wait for them to bloom to have great looking plants. I have them on my wish list as you can tell. I forgot who has one but someone posted a picture of one last year and I've been mad for them every since.

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yep you can do them from seeds. It just takes longer for them to become a plant.

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jiffymouse,

slugs love the leaves........An I dont drink beer.. They say put a dish out for them......They better leave the bulbs alone.

dodge

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I used broken up egg shells around my hosta to detour the slugs. So far it seems to be working. Maybe it would work for the canna too?

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tk,

It is worth a try.. Hd eats eggs everyday..

Maybe it keeps them busy.. Never had a problem with hosta..

dodge.

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MORNINGLORI,

YOR A DOWNRIGHT SHOWOFF.........;O)

HA HA YEP TEXAS IS BIG ON FLOWERS.. RIGHT NOW I OWN TEXAS SAGO PALM, MEXICAN PETUNIAS , TEXAS GINGER .......OK SPEAKING OF GINGER.. IT ISNT EATABLE IS IT?/ mINE IS 2 FOOT TALL, INSIDE THE HOUSE.. I KEPT IT IN THE BASEMENT ALL WINTER. NOW IT IS AT IT AGAIN.. LADY FROM TEXAS GAVE ME THEM AND LOTS OF CACTUS......ALL GREW .. INSIDE.HA HA.......YES I AM TRULY AMAZED.. HOWEVER IT ALL DEPENDS WHERE ONE LIVES AND LOVES.

DODGE

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Usually the large seeds you knick a little with a knife and soak them over night.. I tried several different things this year, and the best was to let my large moonflower seeds set in warm water for several days.. I kept changing the water and kept filling it with warm water till they sprouted and put them in the dirt... It was the best way I found to get the best yield of my big seeds..

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Hey Spring fever, just curious as to what state you are in? Would like to see the difference between how our moonflowers sprout up.

I planted some last weekend at my husbands place in Ohio and just this week here in Toronto.

Massachusetts.. I planted mine about a month ago now... I didn't do the soak and only got 1 seed to sprout.. and its 4 inches tall now ... they are pretty though..
The big seeds are easier that way..I did the same with morning glories did 1 soaked and 1 not and the soaked ones are about 3 inches now and the others never sprouted!

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NEWBIE

i PLANTED MOONIES AWHILE AGO....iNSIDE..iSNT IT TOO EARLY FOR ANNUALS IN oHIO? We still get frost in zone 5 ......May 31 is safe to come up.

Just wondering?/ Ohio maybe warmer if they are closer to the lake.....What part of Ohio is he in? My sis lived in Cleveland.....neice in Mentor.

dodge

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Newbie

Some reason I have received lots of hard shelled seeds????? I am trying that hard.. Took some and put them in a baggie with a little water and tape it to the sunny window....
Try that one too.

RIGht now I have Ginko Bilobo seeds to do.. DOnt know if I should they say the female is a stinker.. SHe smells terrible? DO you know anything on that one?

THANKS ..DODGE..

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No
when it grows into a tree.....It is smelly?/

Ha ha
Maybe I can then say, OH YOU LITTLE STINKER..

HA HA;O)

DODGE

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Really Dodge?? Never had one .. Never knew they smelt bad.. Do you plan on using it as a whatever they do..vitanin, herb ,natural healer??

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shazzie,they say they will die off but you know what?
one heck of a lot of folks leave em in the ground up here in zone 5 and dont have a problem.
its a gamble ,but from what im seeing,not a big one.
guess its got something to do with global warming. ive left em in myself along with cannas , callas , and even glads.
dont take my word for it though.
maybe try a little experiment with a little of your stock and see what kind of results you get!

i tell ya what, im not gonna dig em up this year(last year was the first time i dug the cannas and callas out,just started out with glads and dahlias,the one dahlia i dug out doesnt appear to be coming back but its still early yet. the new dahlias i planted are growing well and the old one hasnt shown yet, (dang it i like that one)
well see what transpires and compare notes.
i think the old one was of the halskrag variety
at least thats what ive seen on the web.
i bought it from a old time supermarket(a vanishing breed here in st louis and probably every where) spring sale just cause i thought it looked neat. didnt know what it was , just took a chance. was a very nice plant that produced lovely blooms all summer and fall long.didnt know a thing about dahlias before then.
did some research on the web and figured out what it was. i keep looking at where i planted it and hoping but nothing is showing yet.
kinda looks like i may have lost it. unless its one of those that comes up later. yea thats the spirit, itll come up later!

Love flowers .. Don't really grow early spring ones though.. just too cold to go out.. Hate being cold.. dalhia i did grow last year loved it and don't think I used proper storage for it...I put it in a box down in my cellar I am not sure it will grow this year but it was Pretty!!

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Dodge you get a little snow.. we usually get crazy snow last year we got the blizzard the snow was almost over my sons head!!
between the shoveling and trying to get around it gets old fast!

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Thanks for the comfort Porter..I think they'll be ok.So you leave calla's in too? They are my absolute favorite flower,and i have'nt yet tried to grow them...Maybe this year.
About Dahalia's aren't some Perenials? Some Annuals? My kids gave my some for Mother's
Day 2 years ago and they never came back..Then a friend gave me some and they came back last year..
I'd like to get the ones that come back (things that come back are great,cause I'm lazy sometimes.)

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~ Albert Einstein ~

trouble with dahlias is that while they are perinials,they arent winter hardy whatsoever.
and so far ,my attempts to dig them up and save them havent been successful(first time tring though,you never know)
as for the tulips,digging em up wont help em.
typically the first year is great,followed by a major decline the second year and it gets much worse after that. maybe clip the bloom before the flower goes to seed.perhaps that will get ya a little more time with them. but most folks replant them with new bulbs yearly for the showiest flowers.kinda wonder what the dutch know that we dont. someone has to grow em to supply us with bulbs.

porter,


You must of read my mind........That is the story I was telling my husband at supper tonite..the new ones look the greatest.. i have to read up on them......Like you said , they do decline yearly.......
Ha ha
You have smarts.....Got me thinking now.


dodge

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my tulips were absolutely glorious this year,their first in the garden. i actually had nieghbors coming by tio take pictures of em.
i hope they dont expect the same thing next year.
they are just about done for the year and ive got a bit of a loll going on right now as the summer plants grow. but once june and july gets here,there will be so much in bloom it will make tour head spin.ive kind of gotten carried away with it, i probably should have just put a few yews in,but id rather have flowers then weeds and if i can crowd the weeds out,so much the better!