Neomaricas and Trimezias

[Rafa]

Hello,

I am experimenting with this method. Perlita with sistemic fungicide and water. I have put the seeds in the surface. I have grow some other species of Neomarica but I have never try this method.

What do you think?

[Lesley Cox]

Looks like some new kind of board game Rafa. I hope you win.

[Rafa]

HAhAH yes it is Lesley. They are ice boxes, I think they could be perfect as a recipient just to germinate the seeds. After that I will put each germinated seed in classic pots. They are Trimezia steyermarkii, T. sincorana, T. galaxioides, T. martinicensis, Neomarica coerulea. N. northiana, N. sabini, N. fulmiensis, N. sp# Tepic-Nayarit and N.candida.

The plants I grow, are happy indoors in shade position.

[Maggi Young]

Rafa, will it not be difficult to keep these seeds with enough moisture in such small, shallow receptacles?

[Rafa]

Yes Maggi, you are actually right since the perlita is dry at this moment. I am going to change the receptacle in to a bigger one. I have seen a similar method in a german web page about neomaricas being planted ina bowl.

Best wishes

[PEAK]

Rafa, why don't you use 6 or 7 cm pots with drainage holes? Then using only perlite you could have the pots always standing in about 1 cm of water. The surface will be kept evenly wet and you don't have to worry about watering. Only fill up again when the level is coming to low. I tried N.coerulea last year, I was told it needed 30C for germination, I can't say if that is true because none germinated

Cheers

[Lesley Cox]

I assume we're talking centigrade here? I'd be surprised at anything NEEDING 30^o to germinate. In temperate climates all growth stops completely around 26-7^o.

[PEAK]

Lesley I perhaps were a bit indistinct using "needed". But I would say that in some more tropical species i very high temperature could favor germination. Last year I germinated Adansonias "Baobab trees" in 40C, they then came up i a few days, using a lower temperature it would take months and usually the seeds are ruined by soil pathogens before germination occurs.
Yes here in Sweden we talks degrees Celsius, a scale invented by the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius
Of course when it comes to actual growth 40C would be far to hot!

Cheers

[Lesley Cox]

Per-Ake you are right of course. Germination and growing are not the same thing and sometimes need quite different conditions applied to the same plant.