Cyclamen 2016

[Mark Griffiths]

I'd sow now - I have all my seeds in a room, pots under plastic bags and then I put a black bin bag over them to keep the light out. I also soak them for a day in warm water with a drop of detergent.

After about 3 weeks I check them every few days, when they germinate I move them out into the greenhouse.

[SJW]

I do exactly the same as Mark although if I have the space I keep the pots of young seedlings on a south-east facing windowsill indoors rather than move them straight to the greenhouse. They appreciate the extra warmth and I find they make good growth throughout the winter if given good light.

[ThomasHe]

Thank you both for the answer. Will go the way you have suggested, thank you, Thomas

[Mark Griffiths]

I was sort of thinking about it as I wrote it but I agree with Steve, if I had somewhere relatively cool and light in the house I wouldn't move them to the greenhouse immediately - but I know they would just shrivel up in the house as it's too hot and dry.

I suspect also it may stop any un germinated seed from sprouting with so great a temperature change. 

[ian mcdonald]

I delayed sowing seed until April this year to see if germination rates improved. They were about the same as winter sowing (between 5 and 10%). Photo shows C. rohlfsianum seedlings. They were sown in the greenhouse in April and have been there since img. 1020244.

[Rimmer de Vries]

C. rohlfsianum seedlings sown 2 September 2016 (3 months ago) started outside and brought inside basement when temps became consistently close to freezing. Both pots have the same lot of seeds.

[Gerdk]

This is Cyclamen elegans, flowering since a couple of weeks this season.

Gerd

[Mark Griffiths]

Gerd, that looks great, elegans can be a tricky thing.

[Gerdk]

Gerd, that looks great, elegans can be a tricky thing.

Thank you, Mark!
Why do you think C. elegans is tricky? For me the species is as easy as 'normal' C. coum.
There is one exception however - I never had seeds from 2 different clones.

Gerd

[Gert-Jan]

Hello,

One week to go for Christmas. Cyclamen did well this year. Wishing you all a lovely Christmas and a very good, healthy and lucky 2017.

Gert-Jan Achel (BE)

[Maggi Young]

A perfectly festive Cyclamen, Gert-Jan!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Cyclamen hederifolium is still flowering in the garden after several months, and now the C. coum is starting to flower.