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03-04-2019, 03:29 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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If mine get a bit "leggy" I plant them deeper in the pots when potting up. It works sometimes.


Yes, that works well with tomatoes Tess. You can bury them almost as deep as you want as more roots will form up the underground stem.

As you say, it doesn't work with everything though.
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03-04-2019, 03:32 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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Will do. I will be buy you an imaginary latte and one of their iced Danish pastries.


Well I sat there for an hour at that little table, waiting for me Latte!
I'm going home now.
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03-04-2019, 04:15 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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If mine get a bit "leggy" I plant them deeper in the pots when potting up. It works sometimes.
Oooh Ok. That might work. Thanks Tess.
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03-04-2019, 04:16 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

Got all ready to go to the garden centre then it started to pour down so didn't go in the end. Tomorrow perhaps.
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04-04-2019, 12:47 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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Well I sat there for an hour at that little table, waiting for me Latte!
I'm going home now.
Sorry Mups, they had sold out of pastries. I will PM you a Nespresso.
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04-04-2019, 12:49 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

I bought some Cosmos plug plants today (never noticed them before but they had hundreds of them) so now I have three chances, sown indoors, plugs and sown outdoors. Even I should be able to get one decent plant from that lot.
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05-04-2019, 02:05 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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I bought some Cosmos plug plants today (never noticed them before but they had hundreds of them) so now I have three chances, sown indoors, plugs and sown outdoors. Even I should be able to get one decent plant from that lot.


You will be selling them at your front gate at this rate.
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05-04-2019, 02:32 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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You will be selling them at your front gate at this rate.
Ha! You may laugh at this Mups. Whenever I try something from seed I always imagine that I will end up with so many plants that I will be giving them away or selling them from a stall in the market. In reality, I'm lucky if I end up with one.

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06-04-2019, 12:40 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

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Ha! You may laugh at this Mups. Whenever I try something from seed I always imagine that I will end up with so many plants that I will be giving them away or selling them from a stall in the market. In reality, I'm lucky if I end up with one.

Hi LD, been following your cosmos adventures with interest,
I cant help much myself, but my advice would be to stick
with Mupps, she seems very clued up on this subject,
speshli concerning uk conditions.
We had cosmos growing in SA, but all we had to do was
let the flowers go to seed and dry out, then break the flowers
open and spread the seed around the plant and rake lightly
then water, lo and behold in spring, more cosmos!

Good luck with the seeds. Donkeyman.
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06-04-2019, 02:02 PM
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Re: Cosmos from seed.

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
I bought some Cosmos plug plants today (never noticed them before but they had hundreds of them) so now I have three chances, sown indoors, plugs and sown outdoors. Even I should be able to get one decent plant from that lot.
I've been in the greenhouse pricking mine out (that'll excite you no doubt).

I remember getting told off for picking cosmos in the veldt in SA! They grow wild over there, super! I really shouldn't have been out there anyway cos of snakes
 
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