Pacific Coast Iris Seed

Growing Pacific Coast Iris from seed

My experience with growing PCI from seed has been... It's easy, really! In fact, one of the primary reasons to so diligent about dead-heading PCI pods is too prevent volunteers seedlings from mixing with your registered hybrid. (Speaking from experience, it's difficult culling volunteers from hybrids!)

The hard part is growing the seedlings for a year or two, or longer, to see if any are unique enough to be worthy of considering as possible introductions. It takes a tough heart and some grim determination when it comes time to weed out the "undesirables", but it must be done in order to allow the chosen few to florish. They may be as few as 1 or 2 out of 100 that are considered as candidates for introduction!

For a deeper dive into how we grow Pacific Coast Iris from seed, please check out our Growing PCI From Seed article!

Ordering will be available from mid-September through mid-November.

There will be two options:

• Bee-cross registered pod-parent: the pod-parent will be listed; pollination will have been random from bee contributions
• Random mix: a mix of various bee-crossed seed from registered pod-parents; pod parent will not be identified

A few of our hybrids....