How to Grow Delphinium From Seed 🌱

Five stars for acknowledging how difficult it is to germinate these! ONE full year of trying and I have two to show for it. I'm trying again but I am not overly confident. If you see on the news that a 50 year old woman flung herself off a bridge... that was me 😁

Good morning from Seacoast NH! Vida, this was the best video I have ever seen about Delphiniums! This is my 3rd year of seed planting and through a bunch of videos I watched this winter I ended up doing 90% of what you just explained. However, I still learned so much from you. Thank you! You’ve also taught me so much about harvesting seeds. I believe we live somewhat nearby each other and if you would ever want to meet and trade our harvested seeds … that would be great! 😃

This seed is still a big challenge for me. I used your method for starting delphinium and Bells of Ireland. It worked for the Bells but, as of yet, not for the delphinium. I did winter sow delphinium and I have two seedlings to show for it so far. I'm not giving up. Also, I did not know it had a taproot. Thank you for such an informative video!

Very helpful, thank you for explaining your process

I saved seeds from a dark blue delphinium and winter sowed some, still waiting. I'm in NW Ohio. Praying for God's blessing on my effort. Yours look great!

We germinated seeds in a covered plastic tray, using the paper towels as you did. The mixed variety have a few seedlings, the blue ones have not yet germinated. We will move them to a cool spot, as we didn't know that liked that

You explained everything better than anyone else! Just bought 2 paks of seeds and live in the south. Thinking maybe I need to wait till fall and direct sow.

I planted some delphinium on my unheated covered side porch in early May, it’s May 23 now. I’m in south central PA. They took about two weeks to sprout. I didn’t do anything special. I had no idea they were tricky to sprout. We did have very chilly nighttime temperatures when I did it. Maybe that was it.

Thank you for such a thorough video. Very helpful. Going to start my seeds today. 🤞

Yours is the best video/information I’ve seen about starting Pacific Hybrids. I’ve come to the conclusion that various delphinium types require different strategies and most people don’t specify what type they are starting from seed. I think Larkspur is different than Delphinium though, even though a lot of people use the names interchangeably. I had previously tried the baggy method (cold moist) but then got lost as to whether to plant them up immediately or not. Thanks to you I now know to put the baggy under the grow light and wait. Thanks for taking the time to explain (and show) everything so clearly.

This video is very informative. I'm trying delphinium this spring. Thank you for all the great information.

Hello, Really enjoyed your video, I have struggled over last 2 years to get germination and now know it's been too warm. I've tried your method and it works and have 8 of 10 seeds so far, so thank you. It would be helpful in future to give temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit as over here in UK we use the metric system 60F = 15-16C. (Lots of You Tubers from USA forget they have Global audience👍)

I use a blueberry or strawberry plastic container to put my ziplock bags in. This way nothing gets thrown on top and damages the seeds in the bag.

I have the seeds in my refrigerator for months. I think I'm going to plant them late fall straight in the soil outside.

The taproot info is so good! I’ve tried winter sowing, but they rotted before it was warm enough to transplant.

They are so beautiful but they take so long to germinate. Thank you very much for sharing 👍🏼

I used the moist paper towel method for 4 weeks in the refrigerator. None of the seeds germinated on the towel, but I went ahead and put them in a jiffy starter kit using pelets under a grow light. Within 3 days I got sprouts. Within a week almost all of them sprouted. I kept left over seeds in the refrigerator and by week 5 I had signs of germination on the towel. Question for you: when should I remove the humidity dome? When they are tall enough to hit the cover or when most sprouted? Thanks

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