Transplanting milkweed........

Good idea, bad idea. or who cares idea............. possible??

Can I buy seeds, or will they grow from seeds I collect from a plant??

Mom wants to see more butterflies and asked about it

Hope Diane is doing better, and you are hanging in there. Nursing is hard work. Great work on the coons !!!

The fluff is also nature's free wind checker if your a hunter and is better than the powder you buy in a store.

I just potted up some common milkweed last week. I mowed the plants off. Then waited until they healed and started putting on new growth. Then I dug them up and put them in pots. It seems to be working.

The roots are huge, thick and white. A lot of the milkweed plants are connected by lateral roots, which are also huge and white.

If they are in an area you can't mow, just cut them off a few inches from the ground and give them about 10 days to heal and grow. Cutting the tops short and giving them time to heal lessens transplant shock.

I want to pot up at least 50 common milkweed plants to sell to butterfly and native plant enthusiasts.

Keith

Around my neck of the woods growing up it was all about eradication.
I live in the "Concord grape belt". Milk weed pods in the one ton boxes of grapes could get your whole load rejected. Approximately 23 tons.
Faced with such a potential financial loss it was wiped out if seen. Roundup hitting the market really helped.
So it's still an unwanted plant around here

I have common and butterfly milk weed all over the farm. Looks like a butterfly house at times. Also why I stager mowing and leave large areas not mowed tell later in the year. I want it to bloom on tim and be whre it needs to be not weeks behind the butterfly's arrival. My bees like it along with the butterfly's. My wife and her customers like the butterfly's and save the bees trend.

I have collected and and my wife has seeds to people and one of her classed the kids planted some in cups. A week or so ago they were up enough at the conclusion of the series of classes I noticed it was milkweed when the kids were gathering up all their remaining projects to take home. I don't know want all is going on with the classes and just show up when requested to help. It was teaching some knots that time.

Seems like I remember digging and potting some for someone in the past but the memory is fuzzy on details. Seeds or transplanting works.

I will 2nd milkweed as a great wind checker. In one area we hunt has steep hills a few hundred foot elevation changes. After geting busted with wind coming to me from the deer severalntimes I trued milkweed and found out how crazy the thermals and hills twist and move the wind. What really got me ones I figured out what was going on thanks to the floating milkweed was how the deer know the direction of the danger with the wind currents moving so round about in direction

I am a sort of nonpaid care taker of 3500 acres here in north central Pa and our milk weed is slowly dying off it seems. We have several small fields that we do not cut that was filled with the stuff but slowly dying off??? Should we cut it after they leave in September???......jk