This is my first post on this forum, so lets hope I get it right.

I have two plants that were given to me several years ago as seedlings in a 4" pot. They bloom often, but when they want to, not when everyone else thinks they should.

Each blooming usually leaves me with 2 to 5 berries, and when they begin to turn red I pick them off and very carefully remove the seeds. Usually get from 1 to 5 seeds from each berry. Be very careful removing the seeds, for if the berries are really ripe, some of the seeds will have roots already sprouting from them. If the seeds have large roots already, I just pot them in a deep 3-4 inch pot to grow. If there are no roots showing, I put the seeds in a plastic bag with a folded up wet paper towel, and put them in a warm bright but not sunny spot to germinate. As the seeds develop roots, I remove them from the bag and plant them.

Do not bury them in the pots.....place the dark "eye" on each seed horizontal with the root down into a depression in the potting soil. Cover the seed about half way with soil, or just enough to keep it from washing around when you water them.

Clivia do not behave like I expected them to.....I expected the root to grow down and eventually lift the seed up, then I expected the seed to split much like a pea, and form two cotyledon leaves with true leaves coming from their junction. Clivia don't do that! The root grows down, and picks the seed up, but the leaves grow from the side of the root. I have one seed right now that is a half inch above the soil, with a quarter inch little leaf growing on its side.

Both my plants give orange blooms with a yellow center. I am sure all my seeds are self crosses of each plant, since they usually do not bloom together. I'm in hopes of getting another plant with different flowers to try my hand at crossing them and seeing what I get. Sounds like fun to me

i just bought some Clivia seeds online and if you google you get all kinds of wacky stuff people say to do. do what Bill does... it sounds just like my Grandma does with her salmon colored clivias, and she has always had good success with them. she gave me one... and has about three left and keeps growing them from seed! :) ! warning... these DO take about 5 years after they sprout before they flower again.

anyway... back to the seeds i bought... i got 4 different kinds in one order (two of those were a surprise bonus!) i swished them around in mild laundry detergent water and then planted them like Bill did - only i planted mine in a soil mixture of equal parts of: peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite. then i placed them on drainage saucers and slipped a plastic baggie over each pot... loosly.