ZINNIA POMPOM - SEED

ZINNIA POMPOM

Description
Pom Pom Mixture or “Lilliput” Zinnia Seeds 6295 These dainty little Pom Pom Zinnias have been garden favourites for many years. Flowers bloom in just a few weeks from seed sown outdoors and continue in great profusion until the frosts of fall. Plants grow to 75 cm (2-1/2′) tall. 

How to Grow
100-200 seed/gram. Select a sunny site with well drained organic soil. Sow seeds in late May when the soil has warmed – do not be in a hurry as cool, damp soil often leads to seed rot. Barely cover the seed with soil and under ideal conditions, germination will occur in 5-10 days. When the seedlings are 7.5 cm (3″) tall, thin smaller varieties to 25 cm (10″) apart and larger varieties to 35 cm (14″) apart. If you wish to start seed indoors, sow seed in mid-March 6 mm (1/4″) deep in peat pots or Jiffy 7’s. A germination temperature of 22 C (72 F) is suitable. Grow on at 15 C (60 F) until hardening off and transplanting out in late May.

BLOOMING SEASON BEGINS
Late Spring

LIFECYCLE
Annual

PROPAGATION
Start Indoors or Sow Direct Late Spring

DAYS TO EMERGENCE
5 to 10

LIGHT
Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT
Bushy

HEIGHT
Medium (60 to 80 cm)(24" to 32")

FROST TOLERANCE
Killed by Frost

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
Easy

HERITAGE
Open Pollinated

FAMILY NAME
Asteraceae

LATIN
Zinnia elegans

SUGGESTED USES
Cut flower, Massing in a sunny garden, Middle of the border