Rhubarb from seed

[Aberdeenplotter]

Anyone grown it? How did you get on? I'm looking to try a variety with really red stalks. Any recommendations?

[Scarlet]

I haven't grown from seed but I seem to remember a very chatty welsh woman may well have if My memory serves me correct.

I think it's worth a shot.

[sparrow100]

I'm not Welsh, but I have. I grew Glaskins Perpetual this year and they took off like triffids. All of them germinated, but not all had red stems. I kept the reddest and gave the rest away. They did all end up very triffid-like for first year plants. Am going to start cropping from it next year. Sent the seeds into the VSP.

[Thelma Sanders]

I've grown Vitoria and Gaskins Perpetual as well
and yes, some seem to have green rather than red stems, but you get so many seedlings from a packet you can bin the green ones

[Aberdeenplotter]

So it's common to get a mixture of different colours from one sowing?

[meteor]

I sowed Victoria and Glaskins Perpetual this spring and all germinated and took off like a rocket, I swapped a few and planted most of them in a new area of my plot designated for perennials, I also have planted asparagus (some seed sown) , globe artichokes and cardoons all seed sown. I am on the watch out for that new Livingston rhubarb variety that crops in the autumn but to no avail, none of the garden centres here stock it and UK suppliers won't send to Ireland
I previously sowed Red Champagne from seed and it is pretty red, mind you Victoria is too but the Glaskins has a mixture of green through to pale red.

[Thelma Sanders]

So it's common to get a mixture of different colours from one sowing?

I think so.

[meteor]

So it's common to get a mixture of different colours from one sowing?

Looking at the three types I've sown I have to say yes with Gaskins at the top for colour mix and Champagne the least

[bramble]

I grew Glaskins years ago. It did very well for me and I would thoroughly recommend it. It also germinated really easily.
unfortunately I dont have it any longer as I had to give up the garden where it was growing.

[veggiechicken]

I haven't grown from seed but I seem to remember a very chatty welsh woman may well have if My memory serves me correct.

I think it's worth a shot.

As one Welsh woman to another, I have no idea who you mean, Scarlet I did try growing Glaskins from seed years ago, but don't have any of those plants now. However, I do have a few different rhubarbs - http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...arb_86835.html
Sparrow's Glaskins' 'seeds are in the VSP if anyone wants to try growing some

[Snadger]

I grew some from seed when i suspected my next door neighbour had killed mine with a residual weedkiller he used on his plot.

It germinated and grew very well, but my presumed dead stuff came back with a vengeance the following year and was better than the seed grown stuff, so i gave it to my neighbor on the other side of me!
Diuron herbicide must invigorate rhubarb the second year!

[Scarlet]

As one Welsh woman to another, I have no idea who you mean, Scarlet

I must be going bonkers, sure I read sometime ago that you grew loads from seed....must have been someone else. Though I rushed out at the time after reading the post to buy some and then realised that 4 crowns of rhubarb that I already had growing in the garden was probably enough to feed a family of four.

[veggiechicken]

I have some "Mammoth" rhubarb seeds that I've been meaning to sow for years. May not even be viable now.
Apparently it can grow up to 5' I could get lost in a clump and never find my way out.
I think that's what's stopped me growing it - that and not having a 5' long pie dish

[Snadger]

Their are so many different types of rhubarb and unless you don't want to spend the rest of your life on the loo, its about finding a type you like and sticking with it.

I have three types but only use one of them. I have one type which is green stemmed and never reddens.It brings tears to your eyes when you eat it, even if dipped in sugar.
Another type is small and dainty, but tasteless.

The type i use is a clump that was already on my plot and must have appeared there by natural selection as its tasty and fruitful.