I usually collect seeds from my flowers for the next season. For the last few years, for most hybrid varieties the seed yield is zero. A good strategy to ensure revenue flow for businesses who not only propagate and enable gardening, but also exploit nature to keep their bottomlines healthy! I too have started buying saplings - from government nurseries. I find private nurseries usually sell hybrid varieties as the 'value addition' (healthier, sturdier plants and a wide range of colors and combinations) to the garden lover is a big value-add to them too!
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Anand Kumar Bhatt <[email protected]>wrote: > Mani, I feel the biggest problem in growing hybrid seeds, especially of > petunia and marigold. Sometimes the germination is zero. I have become so > disgusted that I have started buying saplings from the nursery and stopped > using the seeds which are available with shops. They do belong to reputed > comapanies. > ak > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:12 AM, shubhada nikharge < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Sushmita, >> My friend too has grown chilli plants from dried chilli pods and keeping >> the seeds in sunlight and has been using chilies from the same plants in the >> kitchen. >> But i did not know how to chk healthy and unhealthy seeds. Mani ji, thank >> u very much for the tip. >> Cheers, >> Shubhada >> >> >> "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I >> can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do." >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* mani nair <[email protected]> >> *To:* ajinkya gadave <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* Sushmita Jha <[email protected]>; indiantreepix < >> [email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tue, 3 August, 2010 1:02:54 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [efloraofindia:43279] Advice please >> >> It could be also because of inferior seeds. Next time try to select >> healthy seeds from the dried chilli pods and put the seeds in sunlight. You >> can put some seeds in water and the ones which are healthy will go down and >> which are not healthy will float on the water. >> >> I have tried to grow the plant from the chillies from Mumbai market and >> was successful. >> >> Regards, >> >> Mani. >> >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:56 PM, ajinkya gadave >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> may be because of no pollination . >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Sushmita Jha >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I have several chillie plants growing in my terrace garden germinated >>>> out of seeds of Andhra chillies bought in Hyderabad last year. They are >>>> quite bushy and healthy, specially after the rains, with lots of flowers, >>>> which happened last year too, but chillie output has been/is almost zero. >>>> >>>> I would very much appreciate advice on what the reason might be and how >>>> I may have the flowers come to fruition. I apologise if this is not the >>>> right forum to ask such a question. >>>> Many thanks. >>>> Sushmita Jha >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Anand Kumar Bhatt > A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road > Gwalior. 474 005. > Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. > My blogsite is at: > http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com > (Two new blogs have been added on 3 August '10.) > And the photo site: > www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, > Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers! >
