Primrose Needs Seed Stratification

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

A primrose or primrose is a great choice for a plot when you want to decorate your flower bed with bright flowers without replanting annually. In one place, a perennial is able to grow for 5-7 years and not lose its decorative appearance. In addition, having planted it once, you can forget about reproduction, because primroses perfectly perform this function on their own by self-seeding. What do you need to know about how to sow primrose for the first time so that the seeds will sprout and not cause problems?

Features of sowing primrose seeds

The seeds of many plants, and primrose is also one of them, before sprouting, they need to be stratified.

Under natural conditions, this happens naturally. After the flowering period, the seeds ripen, fall into the ground, get wet in the autumn rains, and then undergo a cooling period during the winter months.

But what do we do when we buy seeds in bags? Of course, you can sow them before winter. But not everyone has such an opportunity. Therefore, we have to think about how to contrive to provide such conditions for the seeds in our houses and apartments. It turns out it's not that hard. And the most ordinary refrigerator will help with this.

Refrigerator instead of winter rest period

Suppose you bought a bag of primrose seeds, but there was no suitable container or soil mixture in the house, and it's time to put the seeds for stratification. It is not necessary to urgently run to a florist's store. Cotton pads will help out:

• just moisten them with water;

• sprinkle seeds on them;

• stack the discs in a stack;

• and pack in a small bag.

Then put the resulting package in the refrigerator for two to three weeks. In this form, the seeds at home will go through their natural period of stratification.

But if you have both a suitable container with a lid and soil, then you can immediately sow primrose seeds on wet soil. For this:

• Moisten the soil mixture by spraying.

• Then spread the seeds over the surface.

• Let stand for a day in room conditions.

• And put the container in the refrigerator.

And then, after cooling, take out the container and put it in a warm place to wait for the emergence of shoots.

But instead of a refrigerator, you can also bury a container with seeds in your garden under the snow, if nature has pleased you with a snowy winter.

When you live in an apartment, but still managed to collect some snow, that's fine too. Then dry loose earth is poured into the container. A layer of snow is laid on top. And primrose seeds are laid out on it. When the snow melts, the seeds will be drawn to the optimum depth in the soil, as close as possible to how it happens in natural conditions.

There is another way that helps out when you need to awaken primrose seeds in a short time. For this, soil mixture is poured into the container. Then the seeds are laid out on its surface. Crops are moistened by spraying. And cover the container with cling film. After that, in the afternoon, leave the container with seeds on the windowsill, and put the box in the refrigerator overnight. This procedure is repeated until you see that the seeds have begun to germinate. After that, you no longer need to hide the seedlings in the refrigerator. They are left to grow in a warm place.

Sowing seeds in snails

Many growers prefer to grow flower seedlings in so-called snails. A snail is a ribbon made of agrofibre or other suitable material rolled up in a roll, in which the seedling soil mixture is wrapped like a filling. The seeds are laid out on the surface of the ground and the snail with primrose crops is placed in a greenhouse from a bag or a five-liter plastic bottle. Under these conditions, the seeds germinate after stratification within approximately two weeks.