Growing Common Milkweed In Pots. Sowing the seeds in the fall in the area they are to grow in or in the pots they will grow in is the best method for growing this wonderful plant. If you d like to attract butterflies to your garden growing milkweed is easy to do.
If you d like to attract butterflies to your garden growing milkweed is easy to do. If you are in areas where the tropical milkweed will grow plant them in the pots they will grow in and plant them pot and all in the garden when you are ready. If you want to plant tropical milkweed just soak the seeds in water for 24 hours to soften the seed coat and then direct plant outdoors in the garden or a pot good luck.
Some in small pots that go into the greenhouse over winter so i will have something growing and blooming early in spring and some during the growing season in large pots that sit outside near the greenhouse and also on the deck.
How to grow milkweed. The only perennial milkweed i ve attempted to grow long term in a pot is common milkweed asclepias syriaca and to my knowledge it doesn t grow a taproot but instead creates horizontal roots that will put up new shoots of growth sometimes several feet from mama plant. How to grow milkweed in a pot. Common names include giant milkweed sodom s apple dead sea apple rooster tree rubber bush and milkweed tree.