9/14/25 – Looking good after a little over 2 months in the ground. I’ve been watering deeply every 10 days or so, usually when the weather is cooler, which has been easy this year since the weather has been so mild. Looking forward to spring when the ceanothus starts blooming, I’m hoping that the bush poppy is flowering by then.
3+ months later and I “think” one of the two clones I took might be showing signs of new growth. The other one rooted away in just a few weeks.
7/4/25 – Planted one of my bush poppies into the front yard. I topped it to help bush it out and then used those cuttings to try and make a clone. one of the clones is still alive, fingers crossed it makes it. Franciscan manzanita is behind the bush poppy.
5/20/25 – I was able to finally source a couple of these from Linda Vista Natives! I’m going to plant one of them next week and then try to keep the other one in a pot as a backup.
6/7/25 – Took some cuttings since I wanted these plants to bush out. Let’s see if these are any easier than the seed method. I used rooting hormone and planted directly into the Fox Farm soil that I used to successfully root some monkey flowers.
In typical fashion, my bush poppy seedling has popped the day after I purchased these. It took a couple of months but I was successful in propagating one using the fire treatment method!
6/13/25 – Seedling is taking forever to pop.
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I was not able to find this plant anywhere local. My dog decided to try to eat the seed packet that I just ordered. I managed to stop him before he ate the entire package.
Here is a what the seedlings look like. This is good to know because I actually had one growing in one pot but I had assumed it was some kind of weed and I killed it
Picture of a mature specimen
