I have grown geraniums with seeds from Swallowtail Garden and they are beautiful. On another note, you mentioned buying roses at big box store. A couple of years ago I bought a few of the roses to give them a try but will never buy again as they all had rose mosaic virus and had to destroy them.
I need to figure out an inexpensive way to heat my greenhouse but I have many of my geraniums in my windowsills in the upstairs part of the house. It is the only part that gets decent natural light.
@@tinaschaller8055 with our rates it would run our electric bill so high as to be ridiculous. I already heat my studio cottage and my husband has to plug in his diesel truck. We are already over $400 a month. I just can't hike it any higher and afford it.
Thank you for this informative and friendly video, Pamela. My geraniums are still flowering here in subtropical Australia, so I am going to get to work and collect their seeds. Do you know if I have been watching your other geranium videos and I never thought that I could collect the geranium seeds. I am so excited about seeing the various colours that will be produced! I enjoy all of your videos so much. I only recently discovoured them when Janey from Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat, introduced you and your Bearded Irises.
Hi Will you please make a video when you transplant them. Mine are about the size of yours right now. I’ve never grown geraniums from seed my first time . Thank you 🌸🌸🌸
Hello, xim very excited for this video, geraniums are one my very huge favourites, always love on in my kitchen on my window sill.i have an old one upstairs at the moment, its my favourite colour salmon, and also I love the white, but all are simply lovely, outdoors I had a very deep maroons purple colour, oh simply lovely 😊x
Wonderful! I enjoy mine on the windowsill as well. My upstairs gets the best light so they are lining the window sill. I love the salmon ones as well. I had mine planted with some deep blue lobelia last year in a big tub and those two colors together were stunning.
I'm waiting for help pushing the like and share. I never have grown geraniums from seed. You made it look so easy I definitely want to try. Thank you for the great video and I can't wait to see them flower.
Really enjoyed, going to have a little look for some different geranium colours, then 8 shall save some seeds,going to do a cutting of my pink one for my mum, do you think its better to seed or to do some cutting for my mum,xx
I enjoy doing both but cuttings are a bit quicker for me and they are so easy to do. They root so quickly and you know you will get the exact color as the parent plant.
We had a blizzard here last night. I overwinter my geraniums every year in my dining room window. I grow them in containers on my deck. I just lift and bring them in .their pots. I don't have anywhere to grow from seeds or cuttings. Bonny zone 5b Canada
The geraniums I have brought indoors are all in the bedroom windowsills in the upstairs portion of our home. They get decent light and do great. I love that they bloom for me during the winter. Such a bright pop of color when I need it most.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Thank you for answering. I always wondered in the spring how the greenhouse would be warmed. But wow your seeds came up in 40 degrees and look wonderfully healthy. If I heard right. I live in the south. It’s running one week in 80’s n the next in the 50’s. I believe your around mountain? I enjoy your videos, I found you years ago, when I was wanting to learn to paint roses on a garden sign (which I never did)
@@katherinesmith8591 Sorry for the confusion but I took these into my home office where I have a rack with lights and it is heated. I did not grow them in the greenhouse. I do my potting and seeding in the greenhouse then move the containers into the house until later in the season when the weather warms enough for them. Until then they are indoor babies. 😉
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Oh My, I was seriously thinking how can this be! Lol I was thinking you must know something I don’t! I live in farming community. The farmers were out planting corn today, it was 84F degrees today. I never plant my flowers, herbs, vegetables until first week in April usually we have our last frost then. Thanks for clearing up my confusion!
How long on average does it take your self saved seeds to germinate? I started geranium seeds last year for the first time and found that when I planted the seed directly into the soil, only two seeds germinated. I started again but the next batch I germinated using the paper towel/baggie method and all the seeds germinated within 5 days. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong with the soil method? This year I placed some seeds that I had saved from last fall using the baggie method again and noted that after a week they have get to germinate. Do the self saved seeds just take longer to germinate? I noticed that they seem to look different than the store bought seeds as they seem to have some kind of husk. Could this be why they take longer to germinate?
Great idea pre germinating them! I haven't done that but yes I found the self-saved seeds did take longer to germinate. I would say it took at least 5 more days to germinate in comparison to the store-bought pelleted seeds. Great question and I wondered why too, but did not really research it. I just put it down to variety, which can occur too. I have another batch of collected seeds and try your baggie method and put some in soil and see what happens.
I have grown geraniums with seeds from Swallowtail Garden and they are beautiful. On another note, you mentioned buying roses at big box store. A couple of years ago I bought a few of the roses to give them a try but will never buy again as they all had rose mosaic virus and had to destroy them.
Bummer, I have never gotten mosaic virus from them, thanks for the warning!
Thank you for the video. I have a greenhouse full of geraniums. Zone 7B. Washington state. I keep it heated to 45. And they do great
I need to figure out an inexpensive way to heat my greenhouse but I have many of my geraniums in my windowsills in the upstairs part of the house. It is the only part that gets decent natural light.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse you can put a small heater in there with a exstention cord
@@tinaschaller8055 with our rates it would run our electric bill so high as to be ridiculous. I already heat my studio cottage and my husband has to plug in his diesel truck. We are already over $400 a month. I just can't hike it any higher and afford it.
Thanks so much,enjoying all your videos, xx,so cheerful. 😊
Thank you!
Thank you for this informative and friendly video, Pamela. My geraniums are still flowering here in subtropical Australia, so I am going to get to work and collect their seeds. Do you know if I have been watching your other geranium videos and I never thought that I could collect the geranium seeds. I am so excited about seeing the various colours that will be produced! I enjoy all of your videos so much. I only recently discovoured them when Janey from Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat, introduced you and your Bearded Irises.
Welcome to my channel and I hope you enjoy it all. I do love collecting the seeds and starting new ones, it is always an adventure!
Hi Will you please make a video when you transplant them. Mine are about the size of yours right now. I’ve never grown geraniums from seed my first time . Thank you 🌸🌸🌸
Here is one where I potted them up into 4 inch pots: ruclips.net/video/RduNTJLZHvk/видео.htmlsi=8f_1KPqnLa0-UFRR
Hello, xim very excited for this video, geraniums are one my very huge favourites, always love on in my kitchen on my window sill.i have an old one upstairs at the moment, its my favourite colour salmon, and also I love the white, but all are simply lovely, outdoors I had a very deep maroons purple colour, oh simply lovely 😊x
Wonderful! I enjoy mine on the windowsill as well. My upstairs gets the best light so they are lining the window sill. I love the salmon ones as well. I had mine planted with some deep blue lobelia last year in a big tub and those two colors together were stunning.
I'm waiting for help pushing the like and share. I never have grown geraniums from seed. You made it look so easy I definitely want to try. Thank you for the great video and I can't wait to see them flower.
I will so enjoy sharing the once they bloom. I am curious what color the seeds I collected this last Fall will be.
I’ve never gown geraniums at all. Thanks for sharing. I saw the roses for $10 in the store and may purchase the scented pink ones. 😊
I haven't failed to have success with the bare root roses at the big box store if I can get to them before they kill them. 😀
Really enjoyed, going to have a little look for some different geranium colours, then 8 shall save some seeds,going to do a cutting of my pink one for my mum, do you think its better to seed or to do some cutting for my mum,xx
I enjoy doing both but cuttings are a bit quicker for me and they are so easy to do. They root so quickly and you know you will get the exact color as the parent plant.
We had a blizzard here last night. I overwinter my geraniums every year in my dining room window. I grow them in containers on my deck. I just lift and bring them in .their pots. I don't have anywhere to grow from seeds or cuttings. Bonny zone 5b Canada
The geraniums I have brought indoors are all in the bedroom windowsills in the upstairs portion of our home. They get decent light and do great. I love that they bloom for me during the winter. Such a bright pop of color when I need it most.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Yes I have a bay window that gets the best sunshine of my house. I start my dahlias in there too.
How do you heat your green house when you are not in it? I love the hanging geraniums! I’ve never seen one until now.
I don't.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Thank you for answering. I always wondered in the spring how the greenhouse would be warmed. But wow your seeds came up in 40 degrees and look wonderfully healthy. If I heard right.
I live in the south. It’s running one week in 80’s n the next in the 50’s. I believe your around mountain? I enjoy your videos, I found you years ago, when I was wanting to learn to paint roses on a garden sign (which I never did)
@@katherinesmith8591 Sorry for the confusion but I took these into my home office where I have a rack with lights and it is heated. I did not grow them in the greenhouse. I do my potting and seeding in the greenhouse then move the containers into the house until later in the season when the weather warms enough for them. Until then they are indoor babies. 😉
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Oh My, I was seriously thinking how can this be! Lol I was thinking you must know something I don’t! I live in farming community. The farmers were out planting corn today, it was 84F degrees today. I never plant my flowers, herbs, vegetables until first week in April usually we have our last frost then. Thanks for clearing up my confusion!
How long on average does it take your self saved seeds to germinate? I started geranium seeds last year for the first time and found that when I planted the seed directly into the soil, only two seeds germinated. I started again but the next batch I germinated using the paper towel/baggie method and all the seeds germinated within 5 days. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong with the soil method? This year I placed some seeds that I had saved from last fall using the baggie method again and noted that after a week they have get to germinate. Do the self saved seeds just take longer to germinate? I noticed that they seem to look different than the store bought seeds as they seem to have some kind of husk. Could this be why they take longer to germinate?
Great idea pre germinating them! I haven't done that but yes I found the self-saved seeds did take longer to germinate. I would say it took at least 5 more days to germinate in comparison to the store-bought pelleted seeds. Great question and I wondered why too, but did not really research it. I just put it down to variety, which can occur too. I have another batch of collected seeds and try your baggie method and put some in soil and see what happens.