WEIRD.... IDENTICAL TWINS & TRIPLETS! HOPE THEY GROW FOR YOU.

THERESA

Cool! I hope they germinate for you. If the seeds are mature I don't see why they wouldn't. Even some of the small immature seeds might germinate as long as they don't dry out too much first. Don't peel the immature ones..just plant. I had some of my pods stems freeze and the stems started to dry up so I planted the immature seeds right away.

Speaking of wierd seeds...my Maui Magic EE had made a seedpod and I planted the seeds a few days ago..they were so tiny. Today, I found tiny greenies coming up. I also tried planting some seeds I squeezed out of one of those purple berries from the Medinilla and it looks like those are sprouting too!

WOW!! Ya'll need to send me some super seed vibes..LOL I am getting ready to get a mess started.. I may have to haul them when I leave again..not sure.. DH has done a Super job so far but seedlings??? I don't know..

The immature ones were way too immature to bother with. They were tiny, a little bigger then a grain of Kosher salt and almost translucent. I had a pod that was knocked off before the seeds were ripe about a month ago so I waited a week to open it. The seeds were small and light beige but they did germinate. That's so cool about the medinilla. That's one I'm going to get in the spring. Eventually I'll get one to grow for me. lol I'm surprised that the EE seeds are so small. I figured they'd be about the size of a calla lily seed. Speaking of callas I decided to plant seeds I collected the season before last and got just aout 100% germination.

I found something weird today too. It looks like one of my green Thi leaves are going to bloom. It looks sort of like an EE bloom. I'm get a pic of it tomorrow after it opens a little more.

Hope your callas come up. Where those the pretty ones you posted a photo of earlier this fall?

From what I've read on the E.E.'s the alocasia seeds are large and colocasia seeds are small. The seedpod of Maui Magic had large gelatinous globish sections in the seed pod and I wouldn't have thought they were any good but I read a thread on DG where Lari Ann (from Aroid Research) told someone to squeeze out the gelatin and there would be tiny seeds. So I just kinda of followed that and it worked!

I at first thought that Maui Magic was an alocasia because it is so shiny/metallic but then learned from bahai that it is a colocasia from a Hawaiian hybridizer named John Cho and that some of the new hybrids like Diamond Head etc. are colocasias and are metallic looking.

I found a photo of Maui Magic when I first got it (far right). It gets as dark as black magic with a very metallic sheen when you look at it from the right angle. It's alot bigger now but ugly and frostbit a little so you can't see how shiny it is now.
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The seeds sound similar to the gooey Voodoo lily seeds but the Voodoo seeds stink almost as bad as the blooms. I didn't have any luck growing them from seed but they are supposed to be easy. The callas are all up and need to be individually potted. There's about 25 plants in a plastic margerine tub and they are starting to send out their 3rd leaves. They're going to die if I don't separate them soon. They are from my callas so I guess they are the same as the ones in the pics.

Oh gross, the seeds stink? I don't know if I want to plant voodoo lily seeds lol. The cat or dog would prob try to dig in them lmao!

I knew I had a photo somewhere, I finally found it:
After the colocasia EE flower shrivels, there is a stalk in the middle full of seeds that look like the photo below. Each little section is full of goo- just squeeze them out and dozens of little seeds are inside. Then you just spread them on top of the soil and keep damp in a little greenhouse thingy (lots of humidity).
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My EE's bloomed like crazy in summer I wish I would have collected some seed.. I'll have to try some this yr...Thanks for the pic.

The Voodoo lily has a similar looking seed stalk but when ripe the "kernels" ? are a creamy white or red. There's only one seed per section but it's fairly small. Unlike the callas whose stalk dries out the Voodoo stalk just gets mushy and yes, very stinky when squeezed. lol

EWWW!
I have some VDL bulbs I need to get planted..I had one several yrs ago but lost it.. anything special I should know about planting them??
I think you sent som CL seed how do you start those?

I plant the bulbs a few inches down. Just give it room because it can get fairly large, especially after a few years. I have 5 yr bulbs that produce blooms almost 3' long with foliage about 4'. The most important thing is not to plant them close to windows or doors where the scent can waft inside. They stink to high heaven. As for calla seeds all I do is soak them overnight then plant them in a pot. Once they are big enough I put them in the garden. I get blooms the second season.

Karyn I almost missed this amazing thread about your seedpod. All because I got sick. Glad it came back up just like I hope that those seeds are REAL SPECIAL for ya! Again the unusual contiues for ya lol. But that is hopefully something GREAT this time!

You had to mention the stinky voodoo again lol.

After Karma had mentioned way back when I posted the EE blooms, that she found hers dried up and looked for seeds. I looked too and eventhough I had SO many blooms. I could not find seeds. NOW I wonder if they are indeed SO TINY that I did not realize that there were seeds in there?

I am ready to go hunt down some special seeds rofl. Oh my gosh I think I am addicted.

Karyn you are one of the folks who's fault that is rofl. But hugs to you. Are you ok? I was just thinking about you a short while ago. Thinking I have not seen you post.

HOpe I am just really behind with trying to catch up.

Lucy