How To Grow Bird Of Paradise Plants From Seed

As opposed to many flower and vegetable flower seeds which you can simply flower and develop, Fowl of Heaven flower seeds must go through both stratification and scarification before they can be successfully germinated. Stratification involves keeping the flower seeds in cold storage to bring them out of dormancy, and scarification represents breaking the outer husk of the seeds to help the teenager launches break through and develop. Fowl of Heaven vegetation flourish outside in a Med sea environment, similar to USDA hardiness areas 9 through 11. If you live in a chilly climate then you can still develop them indoors as an exotic house flower.

First relax the Fowl of Heaven flower seeds in a dish of warm water for between 24 and 48 hours. Afterwards, strain the water away and protect the flower seeds in a wet document hand soft towel. Position the flower seeds in a re-sealable nasty bag and store them in your fridge for a couple of  weeks.

Remove the flower seeds from the fridge and eliminate them from the document hand soft towel. Sanitize a sharp knife or knife with massaging alcohol, then use the knife to chip each seeds. This technique - called scarification - will allow them to emerge.

Fill small growing storage containers or a growing plate with an assortment of equal parts moss peat moss and pourous pebbles. Press one seeds into each pot or plate section to a depth of 1/2 an inch. Cover the flower seeds with some more of the rich compost mix and water until completely wet.

Place obvious nasty growing plate covers on the storage containers. If you used storage containers, protect each one with a obvious nasty bag or protect the tops with nasty protect. This helps maintain moisture and heat, both of which are needed to get Fowl of Heaven flower seeds to emerge. Position the storage containers or storage containers in a warm room with oblique sunshine.

Water the ground regularly to keep it wet while the vegetation are germinating. Implant the Fowl of Heaven new plants to larger storage containers or to a permanent location outside after two to three months. If you transplant them outside, dig gaps as large as the storage containers and space them about 2 to 3 feet apart. Feed the area with a slow release manure such as osmocote according to the guidelines on the appearance.