Canna ~2013~

Quick question.. Do the tropical series take longer to germinate by anyones experience? Im getting a no show on them up to now compared to the others thanks x

 

I had a tropical variety and yes they took longer and in 5 years never flowered ....
overall the Thai canna I had germinate really quick and managed to flower as well ....
maybe the seed need more time of warm .

 

Cheers sal,they are in the heated prop,ive got spruts on at least of the one other varities but not the tropical in sight
I watched a youtube video today that mentioned the tropical/small varties being grown from tissue ?? they look great no mention of about how long they took from seed thou.
Thai and new zealand are in soak Thanks x

 

Same here joolz, still no sign of the 20 tropical bronze & white or 10 musa grande or 9 sky hawk lol.
Oh Well ill keep waiting and fingers crossed!

 

I keep spraying my glauca pots in hope.. 1 out of 10
Im gutted for you you mowgley
I noticed while i was poking about that some seeds have got white mottled look too them,not sure if this is death for themx

 

Joolz , funny old game gardening , I had the opposite experience to Sal . I grew my first Canna ,Tropicanna Red in 2011 , germination was 5-8 days and they flowered well in the first year , and very well last year . I'll be potting up the rhizomes soon for the third year - I hope saying this is not giving them the kiss off death !

 

Mowgley , years ago , I went to caribbean on holiday , it was January , collect few tropical cannas , planted them in February and nothing happen untill May ....

 

Gives me hope then sal cheers!

 

Just to butt in, but, Surely the "tropical" bit is just a name for a series of hybrids.
Arn't all Cannas basically tropical plants?

I know some flower more freely than others, but that is probably when growing species plants that require longer growing seasons.

Canna seed was always described as "erratic" for germination.

 

I'm now just waiting on 3 out of 33 seeds sown just over a week ago for a full house; the largest seedling is now 3-4 inches tall!! - amazing growth and thats not even on the propagator base now; its been moved to a warm and light windowsill..

I really am bemused as to why you are struggling with germination Mowgley and Joolz (other than it being different varieties?), but I suppose that's all the fun of gardening even though it can be frustrating sometimes, I hope things improve for you both

 

When I sow cannas, I chip them then pop into some warm water for about 48hrs. I then put about 12 seeds into a plastic tub, normally the Chinese take away ones with some moist compost.Put the lid on and then pop in the airing cupboard.Normally takes about a week or earlier for them to come up and I get 100% germination I have some in soak atm and will pop in compost tomorrow.

 

The series is known as 'Tropic' and I have grown them for a few years (for work) and they always flowered in their first year The flower beds would have looked a bit green if they hadn't. After germinating they were grown on at a min of 13c.

 

Im not doing too bad bilbo,11 growing,23 have germinated in tray and pots

 

Viability of the particular batch may be low perhaps?

Most Canna seeds I have grown have had very high germination percentages ... but some have had very low, almost zero, germination. I do the same thing for all of them, so only a slim chance it was me, rather than the seed, I reckon.

 

Not bad at all Joolz, a proverbial forest of cannas on the way