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U.nelumbifolia seeds

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gardenofeden

gardenofeden

Photo of my nelumbifolia seeds. see the green embryos with shoots & roots all ready to sprout! They are about 1.5mm long.

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Wow, those are awesome! The viability is not long for these, is it? Even mailing them might doom them.
I got a couple of tiny plants once, but they did not make it a week after being shipped from Europe.
What do you grow the parent plant(s) in?

Regards,

Joe
 
Steve

Does U. nelumbifolia need any help to set seed? does it self or do you need to cross two clones? Not that my clone (soon to be two  
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) is big enough to flower, but it is well to know these things in advance, and I'm curious too.

Cheers

Vic
 
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Does U. nelumbifolia need any help to set seed? does it self or do you need to cross two clones? Not that my clone (soon to be two  
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) is big enough to flower, but it is well to know these things in advance, and I'm curious too.

Cheers

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Vic
I dont know if they set themselves, as I self-pollinate mine with a wooden toothpick, quite easy as the flowers are so large!
Stephen
 
Nice photo Steve - was that the Ricoh again? However, if your plants have ready-to-sprout roots, it must be some kind of mutant. I think posting seeds in water in a film canister is OK, as they can start germinating, although from Europe to the USA might take too long. This species doesn't need to be that big to flower, as I've had a fairly small seed-grown plant send up a flower scape. It's pretty adaptable as to compost - peat & sand is OK, but the stolons into the water tray always do well growing underneath all the other pots.

Giles
 
Posting them as regular seeds works well. I recently received some seeds of this sp.(one week in transit) and most of the seeds germinated within a day.
 
I didn't think it was terribly technical, just that they lack roots and have only a shoot. Will you be posting some pics of the plantlets when they germinate? Or maybe a whole germination series at intervals would be interesting, if you have the time.

CP2K - were your seeds posted dry, like in a paper packet?

Giles
 
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not if I'm going to get sarky comments at every stage
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Please, oh, please post lots of photos! I think this would be a great treat for all of us who aren't so fortunate as to cultivate this plant! Those seeds are AMAZING, and the photo essay will make it onto Bob. Z's site and would be a gift to the world. Go for it!
 
OK, I'll stop. Just don't mention the roots.

The next time mine flowers, I'll try to do some viability tests after dry storage, unless anyone else wants to first.

Giles
 
Wow! Those are amazing. I cant wait to get my greedy little fingers a u.nelumbifolia!

Thanks for the Picture!
Cole
 
I sowed a load of seeds of this species a while back on a bed of Sphagnum and they germinated and grew a few small leaves. Eventually, as they weren't growing very fast I dug them up and planted them in individual pots (the 'underground' had grown much faster) with peat/sand mix. They seemed to prefer this and did much better, growing rapidly and one even flowered relatively quickly.

Giles
 
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