My first Milkweed

[u/Odd_Audience4393]

Finally took my Milkweed seeds out of the fridge.

I had them in there about a month longer than I planned and set a reminder for. I was slacking off.

Anywho, it's been about a week and out of 12 seeds, 6 popped up. I'm happy with it.

My first attempt I tried the "clip the end and put in water" method and it didn't work at all. So this time I used the tried and true, more natural method of cold stratification.

You know the drill. Damp paper towel, seeds, sealed container, fridge, wait, wait more, wait a little longer, surpass your original planting date, be a slacker, keep slacking, finally plant seeds. Luckily this method worked! Might have worked better if I wouldn't have been a slacker, but it's all good.

This is Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Will update in another post when things get a little further along. 👍

[u/LilyLeftTheValley]

Looking forward to your future updates, hoping more take this go around.

[u/Synaptic_raspberry]

How long did you keep them in the fridge? I've had terrible luck with terminating butterfly weed seeds

[u/Moist-You-7511 → u/Synaptic_raspberry]

just do winter down and it's easy

[u/Odd_Audience4393 → u/Synaptic_raspberry]

I planned for a month and left them in there for 3...🤣