I had lots of red geraniums and also a white one, but this one was grown from cuttings and never develops seed pods. I guess the only way to really know is wait for flowers. It's really cold here so I don't expect much growth for the next months, but once they flower I'll post pics.

ron ... thats what i recall ... as most of our mini and dwarf are from brooms ... not that i recall they are NEVER fertile ... but that you TRY .... but germination is or can be limited .... at least 2 people told me to grow them.. if i ever got cones ... and dax was probably one of them ... never did though ... also ... if memory serves.. maybe even from resin ... pollen is wind blown ... so the reason you need the big population ... is to insure the wind hits the appropriate receptive plant ... i recall a P abies going bonzo one year... but the days it was drifting pollen.. it was blowing straight off my property ... i think my question back then.. was how someone could be selling red oak acorns ... with any certainty of the acorn actually being such.. and resin gave that same basic answer... you find an isolated large community ... and hope for the best ... he can either agree or correct my recollection ... as i will defer to him ... ken

I have grown annual geraniums from seed for numerous years. Didn't have the chance to order seeds in time to start here in Pa so I picked up 2 packets of the Burpee Paint Box Mix, (similar to the Orbit shown). The get the most germination rate take the seeds and place between 2 layers of sandpaper, lightly scratch the hard seed coat. This year I tested the window peat pellet, dome covered trays from Lowes, I didn't have my propagation bed running at that early time, so placed them in a West facing window. Germination occured 4-5 days after be planted in the peat pellets,90% success rate. After first true leaves,(3 weeks) I repotted into 2 inch pots. Placed in a West facing indoor hothouse. Now they have 3 sets of true leaves at 6 weeks from sowing. Testing the Miracle Grow with time release fertilizer potting soil and they seem to like it, but will start bottom watering with a balance fertilizer this weekend. Go for it! You might get addicted like me! This year I will have 30 geraniums started from seed, to buy that amount already grown would have cost me over 100.00. Well worth the 4.00 for seed and 4-5 dollars for peat pellets I'd say.

The cutting back of annuals is recognized as a way to encourage re-development of bloom since, by doing so, we stop the plant thinking its job of producing bloom is over and thus, begins to produce seeds. With perenanisls, that can be quite different....they produce one flowering...and only one. They do not respond the same way annuals do. So the cranesbill is not a pelargonium...it blooms as it can, when it can and then ...that's it, game over. Cutting it back while in bloom is not how to force it to create more....or better volumes. Better to cut it back AFTER blooming to force it to grow more compactly, giving less to create more.