I live in Florida I use to have tropical milkweed until I found out that it could be doing more harm than good to the monarchs. Now I have Florida native milkweed. Butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and white milkweed. Please plant native milkweed.
I also have curassavica but am looking to get rid of it. It's almost impossible to buy milkweed seeds in mexico though. I got a few oenotheroides seeds which is fully native but I haven't had much success. One seedling out of 12 tries.
@@nikkichevere adult monarchs and similar can feed on a big variety of flowers. it's only the small caterpillars that strictly feed on milkweed and related plants, so I'd say they're likely in higher abundance in actual breeding areas. my area is only a migratory zone. I have had better success since then. I have a few oenotheroides, asperula and tuberosa now.
Tropical milkweed grows in my garden on its own every year. It dies back at the same time as all my other flowers every year. I do not think tropical milkweed is tricking butterflies to not follow their migration route. I also have native milkweed that grows back on its own every year but it flowers and seeds in summer and is dead by Fall so my tropical milkweed is feeding the Monarchs during their Fall migration back south. I don't see the problem.
You're an interesting presenter. Too bad that you didn't follow-up with that video you promised about your multi-variety milkweed planting endeavor. I've just discovered the awesomeness of milkweeds and am going to do a similar experiment.
Excellent video, you are a wonderful and obviously experienced speaker. Thanks for doing this! I'm collecting milkweeds seeds in my area of Virginia and found a spot with lots of long slender pods but not a single leaf on the plant. So far I haven't found any id or taxonomy guide for milkweed that identifies by only the seed pods. I know they aren't A. syrica, tuberosa or verticillata, the most common milkweed in our area. So I hope in any update, you give good pictures of what the seed pods for each species look like. I'll have to plant my mystery milkweed next spring to ID it unless I come across some publication that will help.
Good video, with one notable exception. Please remove Asclepias curassavica from your host menu. Tropical Milkweed does more harm than good. Keep Mexican Milkweed in Mexico and plant native to your region. I live in WI and have Common, Swamp, Butterfly, Sullivant's and Whorled Milkweed. Not entirely bunny proof, but totally native.
Are you done with yt ? Also I’ve checked out your website and there aren’t any updates there either. I hope your patch grew super well for you and the butterflies
Great video - thank you! I just planted common milkweed seeds this fall and hope to have some baby plants this spring! I did a little video on the asclepias tuberosa plant too - I'll put a link to it if you're interested. Looking forward to seeing your update videos!
For those that don't want a fast-growing milkweed, that they will have to pull, if it spreads into unwanted areas, I recommend looking into other types of milkweed. Swamp milkweed, butterflyweed, poke milkweed, etc. They also have diferent preferential conditions: Wetness, Dryness, Shade, etc.
Jeff. I’ve rototiled. Are for seeds. It’s end of oct. should they go in before we get a freeze. The ground then will be all chunks frozen. Southern ont
Shouldn’t they go under the soil. After spreading them over area like racking soil then patting down. So birds don’t eat them just wondering. Thank you
Hi Jeff! Great info. I dedicated a section of my garden to butterfly preservation. I have the Common Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, Joe Pye Weed. Hopefully this will help. What else can I plant?
Echinacea, Goldenrod, Liatris, Zinnias, Tithonia, Butterfly Milkweed and Salvia. Swamp Milkweed is also tasty to the caterpillars and it's flowers are irresistible to Swallowtails. For butterflies other than Monarchs, try Everlasting, Hollyhocks, Globe Thistle, Fennel dill and Parsley, Passionvine, Cassia and Dutchman's Pipe as hosts NOTE: DON'T USE TROPICAL MILKWEED!
Can you take the seed pods when they are green? I thought you had to wait until the pods turned brown and are just starting to split open to get seeds which are mature enough to harvest.
And I'm just putting this information out I'm a beekeeper I love honey bees. What is killing our honey bees is the varroa mite. Plus yeah habitat loss etcetera but it is mainly the might and the diseases that the might carries. Very much like the disease that ticks carry that is why the European honey bee is dying. Luckily we have organic treatments that we can use to kill a bug on another bug how crazy is that.
My mother once told me the fluff from milkweed was used in life jackets during the wars. And she gathered milkweed and got money for the pods which may explain some of the shortage now.
Habitat loss is the main culprit. The proliferation of subdivisions, strip malls, new roads and highways, buildings of all kinds -- development -- is the big one.
I'm in Minnesota. I have a Milkweed plant (two stocks together) that I'm assuming the birds dropped in the wrong place. I want to transplant that plant. How? When?
I'm thinking like he said in the video; keep them refrigerated and dry, then plant them in a cluster in spring. The dry refrigeration should be an adequate simulation of the stratification process, allowing the seeds to learn to not germinate until it's safe to do so (after the soil is sufficiently warm for a long enough period of time that the seed shouldn't be at risk of any further frosts.)
I would stick with species native to your region. If you live in North Florida, you can try stratification for a few weeks, but if you live in SF, it probably isn't necessary.
I would check out Journey North or Monarch Watch for a list of Milkweed species most prominent in your region. It is preferable to collect your own since there may be more than one genotype of those particular species. I. E., South Florida and Wisconsin both have Swamp Milkweed, Common Milkweed and Whorled Milkweed, but they are different genotypes from each other altogether.
Hey Jeff, I'm curious how your milkweed patch has developed over the past few years! I realize it's been a while since your last video. Does your camera still work? Given your Colorado t-shirt, I'm suspecting you may be local. I'm busy planting milkweed out in the countryside just outside Parker. I'm curious: which varieties have been successful here?
The areas you've planted in; have you found the plants were able to successfully germinate and grow to maturity without being hacked down via mower or sprayed with herbicide?
Like your video, but you need to know the Asclepias curassavica is non-native and harbors Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) that is a debilitating protozoan parasite that infects monarchs. Hope your seeds do great! Thanks.
slickrick1214 slick Please, please send me some milkweed seeds, if possible the common milkweed seeds. Helga Cotton, 185 Yellowwood Drive, Sharpsburg, Ga 30277.
@ u need milkweed seeds I have a few left I can send in a couple weeks cause I had surgery and can walk yet send info to my email ( turnerrichard471@gmail.com
You really shouldn’t plant tropical milkweed. Stick to the native species. We should all be trying to plant native plants instead of non-native ones. THAT is going to help our pollinator/butterfly/insect populations the most.
I live in Florida I use to have tropical milkweed until I found out that it could be doing more harm than good to the monarchs. Now I have Florida native milkweed. Butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and white milkweed. Please plant native milkweed.
Always planting native species is a very good idea. Ty
I also have curassavica but am looking to get rid of it. It's almost impossible to buy milkweed seeds in mexico though.
I got a few oenotheroides seeds which is fully native but I haven't had much success. One seedling out of 12 tries.
@@Koraxus really I figure with that being their migratory pattern that milkweed would be in abundance Mexico. thankyou for sharing
@@nikkichevere adult monarchs and similar can feed on a big variety of flowers.
it's only the small caterpillars that strictly feed on milkweed and related plants, so I'd say they're likely in higher abundance in actual breeding areas.
my area is only a migratory zone. I have had better success since then. I have a few oenotheroides, asperula and tuberosa now.
Tropical milkweed grows in my garden on its own every year. It dies back at the same time as all my other flowers every year. I do not think tropical milkweed is tricking butterflies to not follow their migration route. I also have native milkweed that grows back on its own every year but it flowers and seeds in summer and is dead by Fall so my tropical milkweed is feeding the Monarchs during their Fall migration back south. I don't see the problem.
I looked for an update to see how well the seeds developed. I hope you will upload a video soon.
And how’s that going?
@@MaatsFeather not so good lol
Looking forward to seeing your update on milkweeds.
The best effing video on milkweed. LUV your personality straight and to the point.
So, where is that summer video you said you'd post. It would be interesting to see how your garden grew.
You're an interesting presenter. Too bad that you didn't follow-up with that video you promised about your multi-variety milkweed planting endeavor. I've just discovered the awesomeness of milkweeds and am going to do a similar experiment.
Hopefully you will have a way to share your results❤❤
Save the milkweed! Save the monarch! Keep planting seeds :)
Excellent video, you are a wonderful and obviously experienced speaker. Thanks for doing this! I'm collecting milkweeds seeds in my area of Virginia and found a spot with lots of long slender pods but not a single leaf on the plant. So far I haven't found any id or taxonomy guide for milkweed that identifies by only the seed pods. I know they aren't A. syrica, tuberosa or verticillata, the most common milkweed in our area. So I hope in any update, you give good pictures of what the seed pods for each species look like. I'll have to plant my mystery milkweed next spring to ID it unless I come across some publication that will help.
Good video, with one notable exception.
Please remove Asclepias curassavica from your host menu.
Tropical Milkweed does more harm than good.
Keep Mexican Milkweed in Mexico and plant native to your region.
I live in WI and have Common, Swamp, Butterfly, Sullivant's and Whorled Milkweed. Not entirely bunny proof, but totally native.
Rascaly, rabbits! 🐇
Milkweed, we need more of them, and we need more people like you, thank you 🙏
Thank you. Great video.
Are you done with yt ? Also I’ve checked out your website and there aren’t any updates there either. I hope your patch grew super well for you and the butterflies
Kind Sir, did you have a chance to upload the follow-up? We are waiting with bated breath. Thank you and excellent job! :)
Just planted mine around my property. We had some butterflies...let's see.
Great video - thank you! I just planted common milkweed seeds this fall and hope to have some baby plants this spring! I did a little video on the asclepias tuberosa plant too - I'll put a link to it if you're interested. Looking forward to seeing your update videos!
ruclips.net/video/w6p-0_6NGIA/видео.html
Please update what you learned about planting milkweed seed. I'm planning on planting seed in mid-November and am trying to learn from others.
Following
I wish you'd only plant native milkweed. But thank you for caring for the monarchs.
I could have sworn milkweed was not perennial. Maybe that was specific to colder climate locations? I guess i should research more.
👍👍EXACTLY the information I needed❤️!
For those that don't want a fast-growing milkweed, that they will have to pull, if it spreads into unwanted areas, I recommend looking into other types of milkweed.
Swamp milkweed, butterflyweed, poke milkweed, etc.
They also have diferent preferential conditions: Wetness, Dryness, Shade, etc.
All excellent options.
too bad that you never did the follow up video.
Thank you! Very helpful.
Jeff. I'm late. Do you have an update for us my guy?
so how did you do with the milkweed?
Thanks!
Jeff, You posted this 3 years ago. How did your planting go; natural wintering vs. “forcing” in the fridge and planting in the spring?
Don't plant the blood flower it is also called tropical milkweed it is not native and is invasive. It also could cause more harm to the monarchs.
Correct, and Amazon has no problem selling it to anyone buying it.
Do you have the pictures of the mature milkweed?
Jeff. I’ve rototiled. Are for seeds. It’s end of oct. should they go in before we get a freeze. The ground then will be all chunks frozen. Southern ont
I heard we’re not suppose plant the Mexican milk weeds!??!!
Shouldn’t they go under the soil. After spreading them over area like racking soil then patting down. So birds don’t eat them just wondering. Thank you
Hi Jeff! Great info. I dedicated a section of my garden to butterfly preservation. I have the Common Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, Joe Pye Weed. Hopefully this will help. What else can I plant?
Echinacea, Goldenrod, Liatris, Zinnias, Tithonia, Butterfly Milkweed and Salvia.
Swamp Milkweed is also tasty to the caterpillars and it's flowers are irresistible to Swallowtails.
For butterflies other than Monarchs, try Everlasting, Hollyhocks, Globe Thistle, Fennel dill and Parsley, Passionvine, Cassia and Dutchman's Pipe as hosts
NOTE: DON'T USE TROPICAL MILKWEED!
Iron weed❤❤ mountain mint
Can you take the seed pods when they are green? I thought you had to wait until the pods turned brown and are just starting to split open to get seeds which are mature enough to harvest.
And I'm just putting this information out I'm a beekeeper I love honey bees. What is killing our honey bees is the varroa mite. Plus yeah habitat loss etcetera but it is mainly the might and the diseases that the might carries. Very much like the disease that ticks carry that is why the European honey bee is dying. Luckily we have organic treatments that we can use to kill a bug on another bug how crazy is that.
There is no update. Is he dead?
So what happened? I wanted to see the following year. Did they germinate?
My mother once told me the fluff from milkweed was used in life jackets during the wars. And she gathered milkweed and got money for the pods which may explain some of the shortage now.
Habitat loss is the main culprit. The proliferation of subdivisions, strip malls, new roads and highways, buildings of all kinds -- development -- is the big one.
Do u have any more updates? Make another video plz
what planting zone are you in? Where do you live?
what was the result? im trying this this year
I'm in Minnesota. I have a Milkweed plant (two stocks together) that I'm assuming the birds dropped in the wrong place. I want to transplant that plant. How? When?
Live in Michigan. What do I do with the seeds over winter if I am going to wait to plant in spring?
I'm thinking like he said in the video; keep them refrigerated and dry, then plant them in a cluster in spring. The dry refrigeration should be an adequate simulation of the stratification process, allowing the seeds to learn to not germinate until it's safe to do so (after the soil is sufficiently warm for a long enough period of time that the seed shouldn't be at risk of any further frosts.)
He says it more concisely at 2:42
Can you fridge the seeds for a few weeks & replant right away? I live in Florida, Long growing season.
I would stick with species native to your region. If you live in North Florida, you can try stratification for a few weeks, but if you live in SF, it probably isn't necessary.
No snow?
Yeah, He says “dead of winter”, Im kind of laughing. To me the dead of winter means 2 feet of snow on the ground and more falling in a blizzard.
What planting zone are you in?
U never came back to show the results 😢
Where do I find your style milkweed plant? Do you have a list of what your talking about and where did you order from?
I would check out Journey North or Monarch Watch for a list of Milkweed species most prominent in your region. It is preferable to collect your own since there may be more than one genotype of those particular species. I. E., South Florida and Wisconsin both have Swamp Milkweed, Common Milkweed and Whorled Milkweed, but they are different genotypes from each other altogether.
Just avoid tropical milkweed
Hey Jeff, I'm curious how your milkweed patch has developed over the past few years! I realize it's been a while since your last video. Does your camera still work?
Given your Colorado t-shirt, I'm suspecting you may be local. I'm busy planting milkweed out in the countryside just outside Parker. I'm curious: which varieties have been successful here?
The areas you've planted in; have you found the plants were able to successfully germinate and grow to maturity without being hacked down via mower or sprayed with herbicide?
Great video. New sub.
You never came back the next year.
Like your video, but you need to know the Asclepias curassavica is non-native and harbors Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) that is a debilitating protozoan parasite that infects monarchs. Hope your seeds do great! Thanks.
Hogwarts!?😂 instant follow after that lol thanks
what state do u live in?
You shouldn't grow tropical milkweed. The other variety, tuberosa, is the best one.
I have plenty to give a way
slickrick1214 slick Please, please send me some milkweed seeds, if possible the common milkweed seeds. Helga Cotton, 185 Yellowwood Drive, Sharpsburg, Ga 30277.
@@Hlegzudas ok ill. Keep ill pick them do u want them green or when they turn brown cause i can pick and let they dry and then swnd them
@ u need milkweed seeds I have a few left I can send in a couple weeks cause I had surgery and can walk yet send info to my email ( turnerrichard471@gmail.com
You really shouldn’t plant tropical milkweed. Stick to the native species. We should all be trying to plant native plants instead of non-native ones. THAT is going to help our pollinator/butterfly/insect populations the most.