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Joylynn Hardesty

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I have tried multiple times to grow Echinacea. Here is my very first bloom!!! Yes. Second year plant. With more flower buds and 3 additional plants working on their courage to flower. Woo hoo!

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Echinacea is one of the prettiest plants that have medicinal value.

I grew it one years.

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Nice!

I have planted a number of plants last year as well, but they all died (or so i thought). They came back quite early and are also starting to flower now.

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Congrats! Now watch out. Nobody warned me sufficiently that this stuff can SPREAD. Or so it has here in Missouri. More than I ever thought possible. I have to thin it out in some of my plantings.

I don't own the plants, they own me.

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that's great Joylynn!!!
are they from seed or divisions?

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Wooo hooo, indeed!
Congratulations - those plants that we grow from seed are the most special and meaningful, aren't they?
Thanks for sharing your picture - glad to have the inspiration for the day.

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Congratulations, Joylynn!!

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Joylynn Hardesty

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Matt Todd wrote:Congrats! Now watch out. Nobody warned me sufficiently that this stuff can SPREAD. Or so it has here in Missouri. More than I ever thought possible. I have to thin it out in some of my plantings.

Oooh! One can only hope! Because, medicine!!! Do you find that it self seeds? Does it also create more plants by root division?

EDIT: Reread Judiths question, apparently root division does work.

These are from seed. One of the reasons I kept trying is its' use for snakebites. You can read about that in this thread. And there is a YouTube by Doc Jones that includes it in this thread. And this thread by Judson.

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Congratulations! I love my echinacea. I started with 2 transplants and now I give away divisions every year after I find some good roots for the medicine. It loves it here in Colorado. I'm pretty sure my 2 patches are spreading from seeds that fall from the flower heads which I leave up all winter because the birds love them. Last year I made the seeds into Fukuoka seed balls, but I haven't seen if they worked yet. Enjoy your coneflowers!

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Congrats! Fair warning - once it's happy it really does spread, especially by seed. I've had plants pop up 3 metres from the original patch. Leave the seed heads up over winter and you'll get a nice little colony going.

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Joylynn Hardesty

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It was looking fabulous july 20. See below. The seasonal drought began, with the usual high heat. I couldn't find the energy after work to keep up with stuff. The leaves have withered to crisps. A fair number of stems still have the seed heads maturing. I hope the roots are still alive. I soaked the tier they live on today.

Given the conditions I have seen them in growing locally, I thought watering was not needed. Their home is in one of my dryest locations though. Sigh.

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I think we have similar conditions and I only water mine when setting in new plants that I've grown from seed.

I'll look today at their leaves .. .have been watching the seed heads to gather seed befor the gold finches.

It's always a hard decision when I decide to water something like that because I never know if watering will encourage growth and then I'll be stuck watering it on a regular schedule....OR if leaving it in a sort of 'dry weather dormancy' would be better, a more natural cycle🤔

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I checked on mine....very dry here now, 100 degree days, these have gone to seed but still have green leaves although they are also very dry...I'm not going to water them though. They are several years old. will check on newer ones later.

If I water the younger ones I would water deeply and then weekly until it rains....so I hesitate to start.

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I have this wildflower patch in the front yard without irrigation. But after weeks of air-fryer like weather condition, things are turning crunchy and brown. I just fixed some leaks of old water hoses, connecting 3 of them to reach the area as rain missed us again.

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Thanks for posting this, I have also had difficulty growing echinacea from seed. It gives me hope, maybe I will try again next year. I hope yours are still doing well.

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