Awesome! You gonna try and grow all those seeds?
They took 9 months to sprout?!?!?
do i see spidermite webbing on your stalk sir?
The insane heat this year accelerated my flowers (14 stalks this year - a record for me). I've been collecting seed for several weeks and have at least a week or two more...A few days? More like a full month, you slackers!
Every year, I have a spider who sits on top of each stalk (although a few do spin webs between stalks) guarding their mini-domain. The little bums ignore aphids. My largest stalk became infested before I noticed. Another also started a colony but thankfully I got them early.do i see spidermite webbing on your stalk sir?
Good question - from what I've seen, I don't think so. The stamens & stigma mature at different times**. I'm not certain that the pollen is still viable when the stigma matures (by that time, mine typically has changed color). I also believe that I've read of people who grow in greenhouses getting no seed. This year, I spent some time studying the flower progression from opening through seed set. It was very interesting and would probably make for a decent photo-essay (for someone with a decent macro setup). I also got to see a wider variety of pollinators visiting than I had noticed in prior years.Very nice. I assume cephs can self pollinate?
The insane heat this year accelerated my flowers (14 stalks this year - a record for me). I've been collecting seed for several weeks and have at least a week or two more...
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Before anyone asks, seeds will be available from the ICPS seedbank in a week or three.