- Harvest the seeds yourself or buy them
- The sowing date is in early summer
- Sow the seeds properly
- Maintain after sowing and protect in winter
The blossoms of the gold lacquer look as if they were painted with a gold-colored lacquer. If you tend towards the end of your flowering period, the fruits with the seeds will slowly form. You can use these to multiply!
After flowering, the gold varnish forms seeds
Harvest the seeds yourself or buy them
You can also buy the seeds for the gold paint. But if you already own one or the other plant, you can also harvest the seeds yourself. Then you should not cut off the flowers so that the seeds can ripen. Before the pods burst, the seeds are harvested.
The sowing date is in early summer
After flowering, which usually lasts from April/May to June, it's the perfect time to sow the seeds. If you don't, the plant itself may take over the task.
Sow the seeds properly
The seeds can be sown directly in the bed or grown at home. Cold frames and greenhouses (72.95€) are also well suited for growing the plants. It is particularly important that there is no longer any frost.
You should proceed as in the following instructions:
- Fill pots with seed compost
- Sow seeds deeply at three to four times seed strength
- press earth
- Moisten the substrate with an atomizer
- for preculture at home: place in a warm place at 17 to 20 °C
- average germination time: 2 weeks
Maintain after sowing and protect in winter
You should wait another 3 weeks from the time when the cotyledons are visible. Then the plantlets are planted out individually at a distance of 25 to 30 cm or in a sunny and sheltered location. In the aftermath it is important that the soil never dries out. Once the plants have established themselves, they tolerate drought.
It is also recommended to take care of the main shoot. As a result, the poisonous gold lacquer branches out better. In winter it must be protected with brushwood or overwintered indoors in a pot culture.
tips
The disadvantage compared to propagation by cuttings is that the plants that receive them do not have the same characteristics as the mother plant. But that can also be beneficial…