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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: Cris on September 08, 2009, 02:58:58 PM

Title: Sparaxis elegans and Geissorhiza radians
Post by: Cris on September 08, 2009, 02:58:58 PM

These are two species I would like to try again (the first time it did not went well and just left four little bulbs of Sparaxis, that I don't know if they will survive).

To swap I have seeds of:

Freesia Laxa
Habranthus robustus
Ornitogalum narbonense
Freesia viridis

Best regards
Cris

Title: Re: Sparaxis elegans and Geissorhiza radians
Post by: Cris on October 06, 2009, 09:40:02 PM

I add seeds of

Zephyranthes minima

Title: Re: Sparaxis elegans and Geissorhiza radians
Post by: Paul T on October 06, 2009, 11:47:44 PM

Cris,

If you are successful with the Geissorhiza radians, make sure you set and collect seed from them.  Mine flowered themselves to death, and at the time others mentioned the same thing.  In the right conditions you can virtually get seed to flowering in it's first year (a friend in WA does that easily), whereas in my conditions I find it took about 3 years.  I still have some seedlings coming along that are years old, but I've never repotted them so they have never got to flowering size.  They're a very striking flower when out, that is for sure.

Title: Re: Sparaxis elegans and Geissorhiza radians
Post by: Cris on October 08, 2009, 09:13:57 PM

Hi Paul, tanks for your answer. I've already had some seeds germinating, but something wrong happened and they rot.