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This message was edited Aug 24, 2011 7:30 AM

LazLo, when do we plant these seeds? I'm in zone 8a.

Debbie : either as soon as your last spring frost has past, or in mid-October

If I plant them in October and they come up, will they overwinter?

8a? i do not think that they will come up in your area. you could plant some in mid-Oct. and some in early spring after the danger of frosts has past.

I will try both. Thanks.

yes it will grow that I used to had it long time ago so please save it for me and my mom thanks from RedRose

LazLo,

I'm hoping that you may have some of these seeds left/available??? I'm sending you an envelope today :)

Thanking you in advance, Jan

Thank you LazLo!!!!

hey there, Jan!

i used to live on 34th St. a half block south of Lisbon, where they showed Linda Lovelace's most infamous porn movie . . . somehow there were always cars getting slashed sidewalls if parked on any of the blocks in an area of about 9 or 12 blocks, with Lisbon running through the middle, though not precisely so . . . my house was right across 34th from an huge multi-apt bldg. that once was the manse of some part of the famous brewing family, the Millers. i was attending UW-M in the Urban Affairs programme after two previous years back where my folks lived in Oshkosh (b'gosh!), long, long ago, and most certainly far, far away in my mind until i find another Badger (homegrown or otherwise - - heck, i wasn't originally from Dairyland.) . . . nostalgia for a place and things that are no longer anything like they were before or just after we were doing the VietNam tango quango. Ah, but i digress . . . pardon me.

sure ! i still have a good quantity of these remaining . . . i will set aside a nice fat packet for you. because of un-improving RA troubling a couple of the fingers of my right hand, i had to choose a couple of species which just have to be shared without completely cleaning the seeds. everything has been thouroughly dried and properly stored since harvesting. the BCS Dat was the most numerous and voluminous of my seed snatches harvests. you'll get several hundred seeds, perhaps a thousand, but you will have to complete the cleaning process if you feel the need to. when i make a planting, i just tweeze out a few loose ones. what is seed and what is not is totally obvious. btw, even though not totally cleaned, once dried these seeds have all been treated with ground cinnamon to help prevent "damp off" caused by fungi and molds.

i am going to close this thread - probably sometime Friday evening or Saturday morning - and pack up all the remaining surplus i have of the BCS Datura as part of seed donations to a few school gardening clubs and where applicable, to Trudi Davenport over at http://www.WinterSown.org . . . when i was a tween i had this paperback book that was all about really neat stuff (yup - i have always been a nerd - - even while totally hippie!) . . . RNS that anyone could get for an SASE and a short but polite cover letter for whatever the heck you were requesting whomever it might be to send your way with the enclosed SASE . . . Folks! y'all can still do that with WinterSown.org . . . i liked what Trudi and her volunteer packagers sent back to me . . . the 2nd time, i also enclosed a couple bucks to help by stuff the .org needed. then, i started being a seed donor.

Jan - - and anyone else interested - - you can get a packet or two of free seeds in return for just sending an SASE to the folks at WinterSown.org . . . go to their website and you will find a link to info about this feature of their service to gardeners from all over.

and, Jan, perhaps on reflection, you might think of something tradeable and then i would just return your envy and stamps to you when they arrive here. Else ... if you haven't mailed the request yet, things are much, much easier if you just contact me in a private DMail msg to create a discussion thread about trading . . . JMTCW, YMMV !

A T B T Y !         ~         £az£o    ;--)


This message was edited Sep 12, 2011 3:22 PM

Lazlo, save a seed pack for me. I'll try to get a SASE in the mail tomorrow. Thanks.

Deebie - WHAT ??!! no use of the usual carrot for £az£o? . . . just kiddin' !     ;--)

a pudgy pouch of these set aside for you, dearheart.

Lazlo, I just read your threads just to get my smiles in for the day. Such a nerd. I think most gardeners were nerds. Sharon

You are totally AWESOME!!! I got a big bag of every imaginable Dat seed from you and am TOTALLY OVERWHELMED by your generosity!!! I'm always sharing plants/seeds/cuttings with friends and family and I can't begin to thank you enuff!!!

Thank you for making my day!!! I will be looking at my seeds and see if there's something that I can send you in return...

Bless you!!! Jan

Hi u got dmail

Lazlo, do you now if rain lily seeds need to be refrigerated for 6 weeks or not at all. Sharon

Sharon - in general, those seeds should be either direct sown in the fall or in the spring after the last frost . . . if the latter is your intention, then you should chill the seeds in your reefer 6-8 weeks before the last spring frost. and btw, i think it is entirely wrong for there to be flooding in the streets of LV when everything in OzTown has been bone dry for the past 123 of August. Boo hoo!

Thank you so much for the seeds. I received them yesterday.

Hi LazLo... I was waiting to hear from you to see if you reciece my sase yet so please let me know thank you... Have a great day.

We had a micro burst and it stayed in one area and did not move. It was on the other side of town.

Thanks for the info. I think I will plant some at the end of this month and then also put some in the fridge. Sharon