Zahara double salmon rose zinnia

Todd Ziegler

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Zinnias are one of my favorite annual flowers to grow but determining wether they are hybrids is a tough thing to do even when they are marked in the description one-way or another. I have seen them marked as a hybrid in one seed store and marked open pollinated in another and it's the same variety. I ordered this zahara double salmon rose zinnia and could never find out for sure if it was a hybrid or not but the seeds are completely different from any other zinnia seed that I have seen. Does anyone have an opinion about wether this variety is a hybrid and if they have seen a zinnia seed that looks like this.
 

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Hmm, yeah, I've only seen them as brown, paper thin, shaped like an arrowhead. Will be curious to see how they turn out.
 
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Todd Ziegler said:
Zinnias are one of my favorite annual flowers to grow but determining wether they are hybrids is a tough thing to do even when they are marked in the description one-way or another. I have seen them marked as a hybrid in one seed store and marked open pollinated in another and it's the same variety. I ordered this zahara double salmon rose zinnia and could never find out for sure if it was a hybrid or not but the seeds are completely different from any other zinnia seed that I have seen. Does anyone have an opinion about wether this variety is a hybrid and if they have seen a zinnia seed that looks like this.
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perhaps @Bluejay77 ? i've only grown fairly common types here...
 
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If you do a search you will see that Zahara zinnias are listed as hybrids.
Just a thought: maybe the seeds are encapsulated for protection, thus the funny banana-looking things. Maybe treated seed?
 
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