My guess is 45...Good Luck everyone :)

78 good year :)

LOL Lucy :).

The rain is pouring over here!! Hope everone is having a good day.
Im off to count cannas!!! Tomorrow morning at 7am the winners will be announced! :D

Good Luck everyone

51

Love a contest!

I:m gonna guess that touchmybody has 69.

How about 76 but you may be surprised when you count. You need at least 100 before you start to lose count. I didn't think I could possibly have over 200 Brugs last year. LOL

Linda

74
Thanks for doing the contest

So i just counted all the cannas (not my hybrids), and i know what the winning number is!!!!
Not much longer before 7am sunday!!!
I tihkn im excited, even though im not a contestant!
BTW please remember these cannas seeds are indeed very precious to me. so please post pics when they bloom i would love to see what they turn out.
Siam :D

72?

My fave is the last one, but they're all beautiful.

My guess is 76 also I would like to say that the wife and I have really enjoyed your Canna pics. Those Hybreds are just astonishing.

Thank you for having a contest Siam!
I will guess 79. :)

Karen

Good morning everyone. Sorry i overslept a bit! Just woke up. I cant believe just how accurate some of you are!

after counting all my cannas yesterday (not my hybrids) the winning number is:

63 thahalibut!!!

And since both closest numbers we also guessed, i will have to send seeds to

rialira - 64 AND honeybunny2- 62

CONGRATULATIONS.
Please send me and e-mail with your mailing address. I will send out the seeds later this week. my e-mail is touchmybody19@yahoo.com

I will scarify the canna seeds before sending them out.
When they arrived soak them for 48 hours in water, plant them about 1/4 inch deep into germinating mix and within a few days they will sprout up.

please post pics :)
Siam.

to........

thahalibut, rialira,& honeybunny2

Thanks for the game Siam!!!!

later...April

Congratulations thahalibut, rialira,& honeybunny2!

Siam, this was a fun contest! Thanks!!!

Pam

Oh, I am so jealous. Siam, would you be willing to give us a quick tutorial on hand pollinating cannas?

Congratulations to thahalibut, rialira,& honeybunny2!!!
Thanks again, Siam, for the fun contest!

Theresa

Bri, its kinda easy to pollinate them, just have to transfer pollen from the anther on to the stigma. Wait for the pods to develop and then when its dry, you have seeds! The canna flower is odd indeed. Im sure you will notice the white powdery pollen, take some and put it onto the thin pointed part in the middle of the flower. and thats it!

P.s. i never have luck with these contest either. I never guess the right answer! :/

hehehe Siam!

hey wow! I was totally not expecting to win XD

before I accept these, what kind of conditions am I going to need to successfully overwinter them here in the frosty north?

thank you so much! congrats to the other winners!

Ria

Congratulations to all the winners!

Ria i dont have winter here in Trinidad, but i know most people over winter them, the same as dahlias.
You would have to do some research. Where are you from btw?

OH man!!! I never win a thing...LOL
BUT.......
CONGRATS to our three winners and Thank You Siam for the contest !!! That was very fun and Very kind of you!!!
Kylie

Darn!!!I was really hoping to win some canna seeds tooo.LOL Siam Thank you for doing this contest for all the GW buddies it has been alot of fun.Keep the pics coming from your garden.

Rigo

OH man!!! I never win a thing...LOL
BUT.......
CONGRATS to our three winners and Thank You Siam for the contest !!! That was very fun and Very kind of you!!!
Kylie

Congratulations to 62,63 and 64 winners!!

the best thing about Siam and his Canna seeds he sends you are not only the potential great hybrids, but man him scarificing them...that safe SO MUCH TIME lol

Siam you are the best!!! I betcha you were surprised by how many you have :-) I wonder how many hybrids you have???

Kylie does it mean something that you posted it twice? rofl

Lucy

Congratulations to the winners & thanks for a fun contest Siam!

Linda

Siam

That's a great thing you did for everyone! I know the three winners will love their new future 'babies!' :)

Congrats to:
thahalibut
rialira
honeybunny2

You lucky 'pups!' ;)

trinidad? :3 can I come live with you, siam? pleeease? you won't even have to pay shipping on the seeds! XD

I'm in central connecticut, and we can't afford adequate heat in the winter, so the house is usually between upper 40s and upper 50s :\ we have a space heater now, so I usually try to keep one room at about 65 and it feels so good comparatively, heh.

however, the boy and I might be moving in with his grandmother in the fall, and if that happens, oh man. she keeps that place so toasty :) everything grows well over there, even though she keeps all the curtains shut and there's hardly any light in most of the house.

does anyone have any advice for me as far as overwintering goes? :)

Ria

LOLOLOL.. Not a Dang thing Lucy.. Not even sure how that happened...

Kylie

Thank you for the contest Siam!
Congratulations to all the winners!!!!

Karen

Congrats to the winners.

Thanks Siam for the contest. I like contests even if I am not a winner.Your contest opened my eyes.... I checked my garden and look what I found....One has spots on the flowers (yellow with orange - 2nd picture) and green leaves and the other is orange with red and green leaves (1st & 3rd picture). What are their names?

Before I joined the forum I looked at my flowers with different eyes. From now on I look at them differently and from different aspects.
Can somebody identify the 4th picture? The flowers grow in tiers on the stem.

Thanks,

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Yes that would be lions tail...Your plants look great..Thanks for the contest Siam..Congrats to all teh winners

LOL @ Ria :)

Figara, the canna you have with red and green stripped foliage is canna tropicanna. The other one im not sure of. i would need to see more pics of the plant. leaves and height and everything.

hope that helps ,
BTW that lion's tail is just amazing. really nice.
Siam.

Woohoo! cool, never thought I would win. Thanks for the contest, & all the congratulations. I will email you Siam.
tim

I can't believe I won, I just put my age. Who would have thunk. Siam, how do I send you an email, your member page doesn't give me that option? I want to make sure I send that email to you. Thank you so much, I still can't believe I won. I just got home from work, and found out. I am so excited. Siam, I live in Texas zone 9. These babies will be planted in Rockport Texas, coastal bend. They will love it down here. I will post pictures of your babies in the spring. Barbra aka honeybunny2

Hello Siam
what does that mean, you will scarify the seeds before you ship them out?
What on earth do you do to them poor little ones>? Why must they be scared??

Thanks,Siam
I'll try to take more picture of the one with green leaves and post them. It can grow up to 5-6ft if I water it good.

Haase roflmao. I had the same question first time I heard it ha ha ha The seed shell is SO HARD...trust me...a nut is easier to crack. So when you take a file or sandpaper etc and file a small knick into the shell, it germinates a lot faster after you soak it. Siam doing it for you saves a LOT of time!! Besides those little seeds always tried to escape and I filed my fingers more then the shell lol

Lucy

Honeybunny2 i sent you an e-mail :)

canna seeds need to be scarified in order to germinate faster. Lucy is right.

Thanks Lucy and Siam for the tutorial. I was serious, I never heard the word "scarify" before. Must be a new one for the dictionary.
Love ya, hugs, Haase.

Oh Haase we are here to experience, learn and enjoy together.

All I can say is that when I first saw the seeds germinated and started to grow...I LOVED the the way they grow out!! Mind you, it was my first time were I winter sowed out seeds.

Lucy

Siam, I checked and there is no email from you. I even checked recent deleted, and my trash can, but nothing from you, please resend . Thank you, Barbra

Barbra you love his e mail address! We all do roflmao

If you scroll up...Siam has it posted under one of his messages in this thread ;-)

Lucy

Barbra, my e-mail address is touchmybody19@yahoo.com
what is your e-mail address? when you give it to me i will send an e-mail again.
hehehe Lucy, :)
Siam.

Rialira please send me an e-mail with you mailing address please.

Siam you are just lucky that I am married and way to old roflmao Otherwise I might just do it roflmao

oh man I need to stay away from wine roflmao ha ha ha ha

so Barbra how do you like the e mail address? lol

Lucy

Lucy, I never saw his email address in his post, it was way to the side. Thank you for letting me know. I just sent Siam an email. I still can't believe I won. Barbra

Siam, just and update, I had 4 seeds out of 10 that germinated. I planted the plants at the coast about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I checked this weekend, and they love it. They have doubled in size. I should have pictures this summer, I can't wait. Barbra

Now where was I that I never saw this before? Oh yeah, that's when I had all that water damage and was in a hotel for three months!! Barbra, what a wonderful surprise it will be when you seedlings bloom!

Siam, we went to the coast this weekend, and I had my first canna bloom from the seeds you sent. I took my camera, but forgot the charger. I will describe it to you. The color is true coral with a large cream blotch( not freckles), with a yellow throat. It is beautiful! The blooms are not large, leaves are green and it is taller than the other two canna plants. When we go back in two weeks, I will take a charged camera so I can post pictures. Maybe the other two plants will also be in bloom. Barbra,

Barbara, thats great, sounds nice. im glad you like it. i would love to see pics of it. :)