Tam, I've never seen the seeds for sale other than mail order. In fact, I see
very few petunia seeds, if any, for sale in seed racks.
Given that you'd have to order, I think it might be a bit late late to get a good
"show" this year. I think I'd try maybe 3 plants in the typical hanging pot-
the more plants, the more frequent watering and feeding.
My biggest concern is that sometimes, in catalog descriptions, I'll see a comment that a particular variety is less sensitive to day length-some such
wording. Never really understood it and haven't thought about it much.
That said, I've sprinkled left over seed of less expensive clumping varieties
in vacant pots and have gotten seedlings later in the season.
Wave seeds are expensive enough (and add in shipping and handling), I
think it might be less expensive to just buy a few plants this summer.
The great thing about Waves is that is years past, you generally had to
purchase cutting-grown plants to have container/spreading petunias.
And remember, they need light to germinate. Dougs suggestion about plastic
wrap/dome is great as it keeps the soil from drying out-otherwise, you might
want to mist seeds until germination-especially the pelleted seeds.
I'll try to check one of my catalogs-Parks, Harris, Jung and see what info they
list about price, the day length issue, number of weeks to frow transplants.
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