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This is the information I've been able to gather on this plant. Please add any corrections, additions, hints or tips that you have.
Scientific Name of Plant: Allium, 'Sparkler' allium flavum, A. carinatum, A. carinatum 'album'
Common Name of Plant: Ornamental Onion
Indoor/Outdoor Plant: Outdoor Plant
USDA Growing Zone: 3 through 9
Conditions for Planting Bulbs: Plant in September or October 3 x deeper than the size of the bulb in compost amended soil. Add three inches of mulch over the top of the bulb to protect from freezing come winter.
Conditions for Germinating Seeds:
Soil Type: 50% compost 50% garden soil
Soil Temperature: 70F for 2 to 4 weeks then move to freezer for 4 to 6 weeks, then move to refrigerator for germination. As soon as they sprout move to a sunny window until time to transplant
Indoor Planting Time: October
Outdoor Planting Time: September or October
Water: Keep moist until germinated
Planting Depth: 1/2 inch
Plant Spacing: 8 inches apart
pH: 7
Time to germination: 180 days
Mulch: after flowering with 3 inches of leaf mulch
Light: Dark for germination
Time to maturity: 210 days
Mature Plant Care:
Lighting requirements: Full Sun to Light Shade
Fertilizer requirements: Amend soil with compost at planting
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Not too sure, but I usually just direct sow my aliium seeds, they seem to come up fine by themselves in the spring
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Yep, I wanted to say the same thing. My alliums, go to seed and just drop over or down on top of the soil and grow... I don't do a darn thing to them...
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Here these are some alliums, though not the Sparkler kind, but I haven't done a thing to them, since I planted the bulbs about 9/10 years ago.. I only planted 6 bulbs...
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Here's a picture of the Sparkler's... I have this variety too, but no home pictures to show.. I don't do anything with these either, and they're very abused, but they come back every year too...
Do not over fertilize alliums, they aren't too crazy about it... just plain ole dirt for them...
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i have a question ? i just got alliums last fall, & got my first blooms this year! i only got 2 big blues 2 big white jades eyes, some drum sticks,and some little moutains. how well do they propagat? can i hopefuly expect more next year???cause im hopen
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Sibyl, If you did not dead head the flowers, you'll end up with dark little seeds in the flower parts.. *but the season for them should be gone as far as collecting them now, I would think, but take a peak at them and see if there's any... they'll be tiny, shiney and black.
It is always good, to preserve the size of the allium's bulbs by dead heading.. if you don't.. then every year after that, they bulb may shrink in size and just give you medium flowers in stead of bigger flowers..
Your choice.. if you let the flower go to seed to make a bunch more tiny alliums, then you've got a bunch of tiny alliums, *that do grow* or you can dead head and keep the big flower....
I let mine go to seed, cause I sometimes can't get to my back garden and I also like self~seeding flowers.. so I let mine go..
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thanks weezie, i didnt know the bulbs could shrink! the seasons been gone for them, i just let them go, so they did set seeds. i think i wanna keep mine big. their size in one of the reasons i wanted the blue and white jades eyes. big bold beauitful balls! i guess if i want more ill just have to buy em.
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Yep... But you can always buy some new one's.. And keep those snipped...*to protect the bulbs' size* but the ones' that already went to seed this year, keep letting them and you'll have a nice mass of flowers..
Did you see the picture I posted a couple of posts' back of the one's I let go to seed??
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