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Lillii

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How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« on: February 18, 2012, 09:27:19 PM »
Hi
Last year before Christmas I bought 2 different hippeastrum hybrids: Benefica and Minerva. Not that unusually but the first ones I have ever had. Minerva started to bloom before Benefica but at one point they both had flowers, so i used my fingertip to see if i could get a nice blend  ;D. Now they both have 2 seedpods and Benefica even got one more flowerstem! It has opened some days ago. My question is: how can i see when the seedpod is ready to be harvested? I guess they should have gone to rest by now but the seedmaking is prolonging the growth?
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2012, 09:39:15 PM »
It's easy -- the pod splits open and spills the seeds out.

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Lillii

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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2012, 10:42:06 PM »
Oh nice, thank you Jim  ::)  just have to wait then!
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 03:25:51 PM »
It can take from one to ca. three months for ripening, depending on the species or hybrid.  It has never taken my plants more than three months as far as I can remember.

It's much faster than Clivia seed ripening -- 9 to 13 months for clivias!

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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2012, 05:30:26 PM »
So does it need warmth while ripening the seedpods?

And talking about clivia  ;D is this one? Sorry about the poor quality, it's taken by mobilphone...Got these from neighbour, she thought it was amaryllis. I was thinking maybe clivia, but I'm not sure. There are 2 bulbs in this pot, and one of them had a flowerbud. Quite big flower with green lines on the petals.
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2012, 05:38:51 PM »
Amaryllis
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2012, 05:42:38 PM »
Is it really? Thanks ArnoldT :) do you know what kind? The bulbs are not big as other amaryllis bulbs i have seen. My neighbour said that the motherplant is old, she got it from her mother a long time ago.
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2012, 06:13:20 PM »
Not all Hippeastrum are large, some are quite small.
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2012, 09:08:17 PM »
Does every amaryllis get several flowers per stem, clustered up on top? The ones i have seen on motherplant is single flower on each stem. Perhaps I'm wrong, will ask her if it has had several previous years.
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2012, 09:50:28 PM »
Can you show us pictures of the flower in bloom? 
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2012, 09:56:10 PM »
Lillii:

If you treat them real well you can get more than one bloom per scape. 
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2012, 10:00:42 PM »
Unfortunately i didn't take picture of the one flower i had on mine. But it didn't open properly anyway because it was trying to establish in the new soil i guess. I can check with neighbour though as i think maybe hers had one flowerbud recently.
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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2012, 05:19:35 PM »
Have taken some photos of the motherplant. First the flower, then the whole plant.




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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2012, 06:59:04 PM »
Lilli,

  This is for sure a Hippeastrum, as for the species it think it's Hippeastrum striatum which is a smaller species.

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Re: How to tell ripe seed /what is this plant?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2012, 07:26:17 PM »
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