C-dawg

I'm with you!

In light of AB and Buzz's posts, has anyone tried to grow Salvia. I'm really thinking about it, but I know that you pretty much have to get a cutting--there aren't really seeds to speak of. If you've grown it, what strain did you use?

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dontask

Its legal to grow in BC

You can get cuttings or established seedlings in Vancouver, grow+propagate in your garden, reckon with a little care they will overwinter.

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2point4

Aw hell. I was gonna copy and paste, but the more I read, the more useful the information gets...here ya go! Wait, here. No, click here. It's all the law info you'll need on Salvia. Somewhere in there, it says that clones are available via mail order in Canada.

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megatrich

Salvia rarely produces seed that rarely are fertile. Clones are about the only way to go, fortunately they're legal. It is a tropical plant though, and frost will kill it. The stems are square, and it ends up shaped something like a very streched out inca pyramid as it grows. They leaves look similar to green coleus leaves, so I plan to put mine out in the coleus patch next summer. Supposedly they prefer indirect light like coleus do too.

I've read (a few years back) that all the plants available are clones from something like 4 original plants, and that even in nature salvia D only reproduces vegetatively, suggesting it may be a mutant or mostly sterile hybrid of two unknown plants.

I know of a cactus called Myrtgerocactus lindsayi which is a similar freak. A single self-sterile plant was found in the wild, and it's suspected to be a hybrid of two cacti that usually can't interbreed.