Mexican White Cotton Seeds (Gossypium Hirsutum) | 30+ seeds

Please find for sale 30+ fresh seeds of the Mexican White Cotton plant (Gossypium Hirsutum) - one of the most useful plants in human history and you are almost certainly wearing something made from it right now!

Cotton is sown as an annual and to get a harvest of really cool cotton buds (see 2nd picture) it needs temperatures of 16c or more and most importantly lots of sunshine. In the UK it is mostly grown in greenhouses, but if you start off indoors then plant out late in a suntrap in a sheltered spot you have a good chance of getting a crop.

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Germination Guide 

• Sow indoors in late winter/early spring
• Remove the seeds from their fluffy cotton balls
• Soak in room temperature water for 24 hours
• Plant seeds 1.5-2cm deep in a well draining potting mix (I use 50% compost and 50% vermiculite)
• Cover with plastic dome or similar with some air holes
• Germination takes between 1 - 2 weeks at 25c but can take a little longer. 
• Keep compost slightly damp but not wet
• Take care not to allow temperature to fall below 16c eg at night as this can induce secondary dormancy - use a heat may if you have one
• Once the seedlings have their second set of true leaves they can be re-potted.
• Grow on indoors in as bright a spot as possible and do not move to greenhouse or outside until summer