Help With Growing Festuca Glauca From Seeds

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  1. coupi

    coupi Apprentice Gardener

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    I bought some Festuca Glauca seeds a while back now, and have finally decided I want to try and grow them!

    I have searched around on the internet as how they should be propagated, and they have all suggested different things.

    Can anyone help me and tell me what I should be doing?
     
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    http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/product/9859/1.html

    Sorry Coupi, I haven't grown them myself from seed, but looking at the instructions from T & M I would go with that - a real fiddle faddle.
    How many of these plants do you want ?
    If bought as plants they do well - no specific requirements, well for me anyway.
    But if you are determined to grow from seed go with T & M.
    Good luck.
     
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    I have fifty seeds, I will go ahead and sow ten or twenty of them according to that link, and we shall see how they grow! Thank you Alice!
     
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    Grasses usually germinate easily, I would just put them in a tray or plugs and cover with 1/8 inch of compost and put them on the windowsill if you don't have a greenhouse.
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Thats a 15 year old thread.:smile:
     
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      I'm growing them from my own saved seed. I've treated them the same as most of my veggies and flowers, using a good seed compost they are sown 1/4 " deep in a 5" round pot. They germinated within 10 days in a spare room, with no heat, 16 to 20c. They are under grow lamps now but only because there is space. Once pricked out they will go into my unheated greenhouse and protected on frosty nights with fleece. Last year I pricked them out in little bunches in several 5" pots, then after hardening off straight in the ground. It needs a few bunches of seedlings to make a good mound in the first year.

      They need to be positioned in good sunlight to get the nice blue colour.
       
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      Didn't notice that :dunno:
       
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        Never mind, it'll still be useful to someone ;)
         
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