Description
Common Name: Zinnia Oklahoma Mix Improved
Scientific Name: Zinnia elegans
Life Cycle: Annual
Remarks:Bright colours, excellent vase life, and low susceptibility to powdery mildew.
This improved mix is an essential component of any cut-flower offering. Prolific, double and semidouble blooms are easy to use in bouquets due to their smaller size. 2.5cm – 5cm blooms hold up well to handing compared to larger blooms which can snap at the stem due to the weight of the larger flower heads. Cut-and-come-again flower, yielding multiple cuts over the season.
Type Of Seed:Open pollinated, a non-hybrid type of seed that can reproduce itself to have similar traits the parent plant from one generation to the next. If you are saving the seeds, as long as pollen is not shared between two varieties of the same species, the seeds should remain true to type year after year.
Plant Height: 70-90cm
When: Spring and Summer
Sowing Depth + Method:6mm deep, raise seedlings or sow direct.
Do not allow plants to become root-bound and avoid disturbing roots; transplant shock or other stress events may cause double-flowering varieties to produce single blooms for a period following stress.
Spacing:20-30cm
Position: Sun
Days until Germination: 3-5 days @ 21-29 degrees
Seed to Bloom: 75-90 days
Vase Life:7-10 days
Harvest: Before completely open. Stem is firm from point of cut to just below the bloom
Approx. Number of Seeds:50
Note:WA orders are sent weekly as they require quarantine inspections on arrival to WA.
View our How To Grow Zinnias From Seed blog here.
View our Flower Seed Sowing Chart here.
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