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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?
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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
) is big enough to flower, but it is well to know these things in advance, and I'm curious too.
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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.
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?
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not if I'm going to get sarky comments at every stage
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!
Yeah Colieo, I second that. My plant turns out to be U. reniformis small form. Ah well, some you win some you lose.
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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.
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