Good luck, dirtygardener! Fingers crossed on this end for you.

These are coated seeds, and there are 75 of them, so I think I'll at least get a couple. I may wait until spring to plant them.

I too purchased these the past several years and find that the germination rate is low. Last year I got 2 to germinate out of planting about 6-12 seeds and I got two to germinate this year with a newly purchased pack. I also took cuttings from some plants I already have. I want to pot more of these up because the Fritillary butterfly's just love to lay their eggs on them and I don't mind that the catapillars eat the leaves - they always bounce back in the colder months - all is good!

I broke down an bought a packet today. :) Maybe I'll have success, and it'll save Omar having to send cuttings to me.

They have a Sell By date of 12/19, so I guess that's a good sign (?). I'll get soaking. Cannot even believe I went from fearing the aggressiveness of passion vines earlier this year to potentially having three varieties in my back yard! The butterflies must come first, people. :)

The neighbor's P. incarnata 'Incense' (?) keeps sending up shoots in my bed. That one, I'm kinda fearing. Gulf frits...Gulf frits...Gulf frits!

Javi, do you have variegated Fritillary, too?

I had to look that one up, Iris, so I don't think so....yet! :)

Variegated frits only use P. incarnata here, never P. caerulea, but they also use common violets.

Sherry

I used to have that one, but it died. I now have passiflora biflora, Edulis, and one that's purple, was told it was a maypop.

My two-month update: none of the purchased seeds germinated, so I jammed batch #2 into potting media a few days ago.

I'm about to plant mine. I'm just going to stick them in a pot of native soil and leave it in an obscure place and forget it. That's what seems to work best with these native plant seeds.

Maypop that I have, is very aggressive, pops up all over the yard. My mom takes them and replants near the original one, makes it bushier.

I'll give your technique a try, too, dirtygardener. Have nothing to lose! :) Will you at least water that neglected pot once in a while?

Javiwa, since I have 75, I'll stick one pot somewhere where it only gets what nature gives it with half the seeds, and water the others as needed, once it gets completely dry. They're wildflowers, so they like to be dry. I'll see how it goes.