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Bluebonnet Innoculation
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Posted by cjb56houtx TX (My Page) on Thu, Sep 17, 09 at 21:57
| We are planting a wildflower patch in lower Texas about 100 miles north of Houston in the next month or so.. I have read that it enhances the germination of bluebonnets if the seeds are innoculated and scarified (since the seeds have a hard shell). The seeds that I have bought are scarified. Is innoculation really a need? We have planted in the past and had little luck. How does one get ones hands on some innoculant that is made for Texas Bluebonnets. Needs some advice please so this is a successful planting excercise. Thanks |
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RE: Bluebonnet Innoculation
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| Don't know where you can buy it, but if you know of a place where these plants grow naturally you could collect some soil for use as an inoculum. |
RE: Bluebonnet Innoculation
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| Thanks for the suggestion.. |
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| hi..are texas bluebonnets compost crop like clovers? i got my innoculants from http://www.bountifulgardens.org/products.asp?dept=9 .. these are the seeds i got: http://www.bountifulgardens.org/prodinfo.asp?number=CLU-7085 . its probably too late for me to plant here..maybe next year. |
RE: Bluebonnet Innoculation
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| I did buy legume innoculants from a supplier last year and it made a huge difference. In addition we enhanced the biologiccal activity by spraying a solution of water and liquid ag mollassas on the tract after seeding. Lots of plants this spring - remarkable difference.. |
RE: Bluebonnet Innoculation
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| Cjb56houtx, what was the water/molasses ratio you used? I bought a couple dozen bluebonnet seedlings this Spring and they have bloomed and set seed now. Most are about to drop the seeds and I would love to have them just come up from seed next year. None of these seeds will be scarified, of course, but if there's anything I can do to enhance the environment they fall into maybe it would help them along. I have also been trying to restore a wildflower meadow on our back acre. It got mowed before it went to seed about 8 years ago and it is finally starting to come back now. We have Indian blankets, milkweed, Indian paintbrush, coreopsis, larkspur and a couple of very lowgrowing wildflowers I don't know the name of, one of which is a beautiful cornflower blue. What is a legume innoculant and what does it do for the wildflowers? Is it possible to eliminate chiggers in the wildflower meadow without killing the flowers? I have been using sulphur to kill them, but I'm not sure how it affects the soil where I put it down. Cheryl |
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