Outsidepride Zinnia Seeds - 1000 Pcs Annual Blend of Hardy Compact Mixed Color Ball-Shaped Blooms for Planting in Outdoor Containers, Borders, Flower Beds, Cutting Gardens & Pollinator-Friendly Spaces

It took these guys over two months to grow, planted at the end of June, pretty late but ai thought I’d try since Houston heat lasts well past our “fall” until about November. But to be fair, Houston has had boughts of scorching heat and drought and recently days and days of rain. So their growing environment has probably stressed them out. I didn’t make any special raised beds either, they were sprinkled around the trees in the front yard. Just tilled the soil a bit to loosen up our hard soil and added peat moss and gardening soil to the existing soil and mixed it up. (Not a professional, just trying things and having fun seeing how it works out lol.) They get mostly full to partial sun, zone 9A. Nothing special, directly sowed into a little peat moss and garden soil around our trees. I did an experiment and sprinkled the seeds around and then sprinkled peat moss lightly over them for one tree, and the other tree I sprinkled the seeds around and lightly raked them. Interestingly the unraked seeds germinated much faster and more germinated. Then when the seedlings were about 5-6 inches tall I spread them out and gave the Vigoro fertilizer. Babied them with water while they were small. They have been pummeled and seemingly knocked over by heavy rain, but with a little temporary staking using some bamboo bbq skewers, they got right back up. The ones that stayed knocked down most re rooted up the stem, we’ll see how those do, they have not budded yet. I’m pleased that after 2.5 months-ish I’m rewarded with these this week! So if they’re slow, be patient!! I’ll update with more pictures as they continue to grow and the other buds bloom! This has been quite educational for me and a joy. I am super pleased and highly recommend these zinnia seeds! Update 9/22/22 The next set of zinnias have many more rows of petals and vibrant, but they’re still smaller 1-1.5 inch diameter—as you can compare the first two pictures when I posted the review with the last two today. I have not trimmed them yet, but will update again after trimming and the blooms that come after. Again, I am attributing the size to less than ideal conditions this season, but if this is how they appear with abuse, I am eager to resow in the spring to see their potential! Still highly recommend! Update 5/11/23 These have reseeded into the same beds, grew in the spring, and now I’m getting some bicolored zinnias along with solid! Very interesting! Still not very big, maybe nickel to quarter to half dollar sized blooms, but still pretty colored and attracting bees and butterflies! This is the first set of blooms, will see how they develop through the season!

These seeds were so easy to plant and germinated quickly. After threat of frost- Placed seeds on potting soil and gently spread a 1/4 inch of soil atop. Watered daily until seedlings popped up. Then watered every other day until blooms formed. Used cut flowers for vases and left some for garden beauty throughout summer. Provided gorgeous blooms for bees and butterflies. Highly recommend.

Update:most are the smaller variety. Not the big multi layer type of blooms. They easily get huge and bushy though, so still look nice. I would say 98% of them are the typical dark pink. I ended up with one white, a few orange. No other colors. Was hoping for more variety. They all grow very healthy though. Planted them a few days ago and all of them have sprouted. I just have them under cheap clip on grow lights and the sprouted super fast. Have to wait and see how they turn out. Hoping they are not the mini ones. Should have an answer in a few weeks when they bloom and I will update. As of now, I am happy with them. Really surprised at how fast they shot up into shoots. I didn't do anything special. Used disposable shot glasses filled with miracle grow potting soil, added water, and put them under the lights.

They germinated very well a lot of nice seeds, but I could not tell the difference between these and the California Giants

UPDATE 1: The germination has been outstanding. A+ 5 stars 100% . UPDATE 2: pictures of seedlings I will do UPDATE 3 once these flower FINAL UPDATE: I added a photo of one of the flowers. I would have had way more, but rabbits are obsessed with my zinnias this year. So these are 👍🏻 great. Great choice, I needed a BUNCH of zinnia seeds due to issues with rabbits eating many of my seedlings. I decided if I sow much more than I'll have more potential zinnias to survive without the rabbits getting to them all. I am absolutely happy with the seed quality, as I can tell just by the look of the seeds they're plump with the little baby embryo inside. I sowed them a few days ago, and soon have no doubt will see lots of germination. Will upload pictures of the progress . As for the particular variety of zinnia, their very full and almsot spherical shape petals are some of my favorite. I like that these do not get super tall, as I usually don't have great results with the huge ones, they tend to get disease or are very irregular (the giant zinnias) Zinnias are my number one favorite flower. My first flower from seed was the zinnia. They're so easy to grow and bloom profusely. I added pictures of the new seedlings. I am having trouble with not wanting to thin them! I know they will need more space so I’ll be thinning them ASAP. I will certainly be buying my flower seeds from this company in the future.

2nd time ordering these & they took a lot longer to actually sprout & now flowers are tiny. I’ve had zinnias before with actually flower size being about 4-5 inches . These are 1 inch diameter- disappointed again

Nearly all of the seeds we planted produced a wide color variation of healthy plants. Unfortunately, the bulbs were small. These did not do it for me. I will try again next year.

Great item, they're beautiful, just as described, quick shipping