Annual and Perennial Plants forum: Over Wintering Impatiens?
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| I'm hoping someone can tell me, is it possible to overwinter my Impatiens, or do I just hope I can find one next season? I haven't seen the yellows available before, and I really love this one, so if it might overwinter, I will give it a try. If it can be overwintered, when do I start bringing it inside. Right now we're having days in the70's, nights in the 50's. Thanks, Deb  |
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| Deb.. Have you tried collecting any seed off of it yet? If you haven't I would and if you don't see it producing any seed I would try and hand pollinate it yourself. Let it make a couple seeds and then make sure it doesn't make anymore. You can over winter impatiens indoors with no problem at all, you just have to make sure they have a sunny spot. When they are indoors too, you can take cuttings and root them pretty easily during the winter and have you a lot more plants to put out in the spring. You need to bring them in when the temperature s at night start getting around 45 degrees. With them being sort of a tropical nature, I wouldn't chance leaving them out any lower than that. At 40F growth will come to a halt and at 32F they will die. If you keep them deadheaded during the winter indoors, you can keep them blooming for a long time. |
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| Thanks Ella, I haven't seen any seeds on it at all. I'll try hand pollinating, but if it will overwinter, I will definitely try to keep it going indoors! I do have a couple of south facing windows, if I can just keep the dogs away, I'll be OK! I've never done cuttings on impatiens, do you have any advice?? Deb |
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| Deb... I would take ya a couple of cuttings making sure ya have several nodes. Strip the leaves off the bottom and put it in a small glass of water and put it where it can get some morning sun and light, but not hot afternoon sun on it. Try just one or two cuttings to begin with. They usually root in water pretty easily. Just change the water regularly and I always add just a drop or two of hydrogen peroxide to the water. Helps with rooting and keeping fungus from forming on roots. Once ya get the rooting of cuttings down pat then you can do a lot more cuttings at once. I don't recommend putting a lot of cuttings together to root in the same contain as when you try and separate them, you rip the feeder roots and that stresses your cutting out and some don't recover. Go for it and give it a try. That a special impatiens and too pretty not to have lots of it.  |
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| Thanks, Ella, it sounds easy!! I'll definitely give it a try!! Deb |
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| I successfully grew Jungle Queen(yellow blooming) from seed and kept it on my light bench for 2 yrs.Cuttings are very easy too. |
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| Thanks, I've brought the plant inside, and I am going to try cuttings. My biggest problem with inside plants is keeping them safe from the dogs. They like nothing better than to unpot plants and drag them around the house. |
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