Datura seeds

[marlasmom]

Just received a supply from my sister who also said she is starting some for me. Do I start them inside or out?

I am getting to the point where I will be excited about gardening again. (I hope) The people who bought our house (saying that one of the reasons they were buying it was the gardens) are ripping everything out. We had magnificent rhodendrens and they trimmed them. One of the neighbors rushed over and told them not to trim them until after they bloomed, but they cut them way back anyway. People used to say it wasn't spring until they saw my rhodendrens. Now I wish I had let my son dig up more perennials when we sold the house. They are ripping them out anyway and not even giving them away. One of my neighbors trying to console me said that I had given away so many cuttings my flowers were blooming in lots of yards. What is the matter with people?

 

[Snowwark]

I've never grown Datura from seed Marlasmom, but here's a link with infor on them. The section about planting is near the bottom of the page.

Datura

Exercise caution though, as all parts of the Datura are poisonous, and the seeds especially can even be fatal if ingested. Unfortunately every year in our city, teenagers are hospitalized from ingesting Datura seeds (also known as Jimson weed), and this was no exception. A least a dozen teenagers ended up in the hospital, some of them found meandering through very busy intersections, hallucinating and completely out of it. Thankfully they all recovered.

I'm sorry that the new owners are destroying the rhododendrons you grew. I'm sure your neighbours will cherish the ones you gave them all the more.

Have any Buds grown Datura from seed?

 

[TigH]

Good luck with the seeds! Hope we can see some pictures of your Florida garden soon!

And may I just say EEEEEEEEEEK!!!!! What the heck are the new owners of your house thinking? We had one rhododendron in Maryland. It was a gorgeous deep burgundy. I sure do miss that plant. I know what you mean about someone else ruining your old yard. I visited our old house once after we moved to Florida. It is a beautiful farm-style house on three acres, mostly wooded. The new people had planted banana trees willy-nilly up and down the driveway, by the mail box and up near the house. Banana trees don't live through the winter in Maryland, and they don't GO with a farmhouse. Sheesh!

Just concentrate on your new garden. I have had lots of luck starting things from seed here, and mostly everything I plant or transplant has lived. I'm sure your datura seeds will take off and you'll be enjoying those large blooms in no time!

 

[MarkRG]

Hello! Have not been over here in a while. It's been a mediocre garden year up here. I have not had the time I would have liked this year to really pay attention to them the way I usually do.


Datura has been one of my primary annuals now for many years. I always grow mine from seed. Usually, about 2 months out from the point I want to bring them outside, I start them in peat pots, in a very sunny window. as far as planting they need space at least 10-12" spacing, very moist soil. The more water the better they'll grow. If they are the purple variety, you'll get blooms in mid to late summer until first frost, the more sun will mean more blooms. But they are the slower of the two to bloom. If they are the white variety, you'll get blooms from early to mid summer on till first frost, with constant blooming. Any questions, just ask!

 

[marlasmom]

Thanks very much. I believe they are perennial here in Florida. Aren't they the same thing that they sell in catalogs for about $10.00 for a root and called "Angel's Trumpet?"

I cannot wait to see you guys at R&C.

 

[MarkRG]

Ok, I'm confused - 'here in florida'? Are you living in Fla now? You need to change your preferences, if so.

Well, as long as there's no hard frosts, I would guess they could be a perennial. I do warn they can get huge. Plan lots of room for them. Yes, a common name for the white variety is Angel's Trumpet. As far as 'growing your own', some of the blooms will develop into a seed pod that once it get mature(it will color when it does), you harvest, and cut open for the seeds inside. They're pretty easy, in Florida, you could probably start them right out where you want to grow them. I'd suggest starting them late spring so they're mature for the cooler months.

 

[Snowwark]

It's great to see you here again Mark!

R & C.....here we come!!!!!

 

[marlasmom]

Thanks Mark. Yeah, we moved to Florida a couple of months ago and I totally forgot about changing my profile. (Could be I'm still not reconciled to leaving NH) - although my DH and I both grew up in Chicago where you are. Thanks so much for the advice.Barbara

 

[MarkRG]

Hi Snowwark! Getting my job thing all straight and now have a lot more free time. Wish it could've been earlier in the year, my garden suffered some for my lack of time.

Barbara - If not for the fact almost my entire family is here around Chicago yet I would move there in a minute, without even a small look back! Enjoy the escape from the more inclement weather, wish I could, the joints ache earlier every year.

If you've got any other questions, datura and frangipani(plumeria) are speciaties of mine

 

[crazyforpooh]

you gave me before you moved so, part of your garden still lives just not at your old homestead.

I hope they didn't dig up those beautiful peonies you had and threw them away. If we had known I would have been more than happy to take some of them.

Now, I wish I had made it back over before you moved.


Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.


Again, Thanks for the flower you gave me before moving south.

Your NH neighbor in New Boston.

Laura