Having a nose around the garden today, collecting some haws and napdragon seed pods to try and grow on next spring.
It occurred to me that i dont think I've ever seen self-seeded tulips ( that I know of). Anyone ever tried growing some from seed? Cheers.
I'd never even considered that!
Looked up the RHS die and it suggests you can but it may take 3 or 4 years to reach flowering size (propagating tab near the bottom of the page).
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/tulip/growing-guide
Good luck. Worth trying these things sometimes. I've got rhubarb grown from seed rather than crowns and they're good so why not tulips.
If you want hundreds of them and can wait a few years, sure. If you just want a few more then just dig up the bulbs and split the offsets.
I don’t know if seed will come true, if that matters. Probably not, would be my guess.
And here's me thinking they came from Amsterdam.
I mean, yeah, i could just wait for the bulbs to split and have exactly the same flowers in a few years, but its the curiosity of the "what if" of the seedling i like.
Same as apples, most are horrific crab appley things, but every now and then you get a Bramley or a Devonshire Quarrenden, purely by chance.
I just wondered if anybody had tried tulips and what they came out like, given that they have must have such varied genetics in their background.
You thinking of giving that a pop now the bitcoin bubble has burst?
LOL
Im nearly 400 years too late ,if I was
https://www.historyhit.com/tulip-mania-facts-about-the-first-financial-bubble/
It'll take anywhere between 4-7 years for a tulip seed to produce a flower; if the seed is viable at all. Due to the amount of breeding and crossing that goes into a garden variety tulip it might not come up 'true' to the parent plant. Still worth a punt for curiousity's sake though.