How to Collect Marigold Seeds

C(caps)ollecting seeds from marigold flowers is easy. But as the plants don’t form recognizable seed pods, so finding the seeds is tricky. Keep reading to learn how easy it is to collect, and save marigold seeds for beautiful blooms year after year.

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The best quality seeds can only be collected in summer. Direct sunlight and the high temperature help the marigold flowers to grow healthy and fertilize appropriately. So if you want to collect marigold for seeds to sow next season, you should only pick the final blooms of your plants.

How to Collect Marigold Seeds

Before collecting seeds, select the healthiest blooms. Healthy marigold flowers will develop healthy seeds and ultimately results in healthy seedlings next year.

When the flower head begins to die off and is mostly dry and brown, grasp the flower head "the petals only", and carefully pull the flower petals from the flower.

How to Dry and Save Marigold Seeds

• Carefully open the marigold seed pods, you should see a cluster of seeds.

• Separate these seeds from the petals.

• The seeds look like white and black rods. They are long, slender, pointed, and with dark color on one end and light on the other side.

• Spread out the seeds on a paper to dry in the sun for a couple of weeks.

• Don't leave the seeds attached to the petals, as the rotted petals will rot the seeds!

• When your seeds are completely dry, store them in an envelope in a dry place until next growing season.

You can plant the seeds next spring, and you’ll have a whole new generation of beautiful marigold flowers. Just remember when growing marigolds from seeds you harvested yourself is that your marigolds may look different from the parent plant from which the seeds were taken. This is because many marigolds are actually "hybrids"  making their seeds different from the parent plant. Viability and germination rate will decrease over time. That's why you need to buy new seeds after 2 years.

➡️ Here, you can buy marigold flower seeds to grow in your garden! 

Watch How to Collect Marigold Seeds Video

Hope you get to enjoy growing these beautiful flowers in your garden again next year!

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