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How are everyone's seeds doing? I put mine in milled sphagnum moss and they are rooted! Leaves can't be far behind!

Hi K, Glad to hear your seeds are germinating…..mine are as well and they were much quicker than the last ones so that is good. I find them easy to germinate and grow on using the simple method that I've posted here before. I hope everyones seed do well for them :o) Dan

i have one seed rooting so far... :)

Bluebonsai..could you possibly repost your rooting method (s).? I'm new here so I missed your previous post. Thanks so much.! :)

Hi, Sure, what I use is the milled sphagnum from repot me.com and I have no affiliation with them at all. When it was first suggested that sphagnum was a good way to germinate seed there was a lot of talk of using "high quality" sphagnum and this seemed like a good choice. You could likely use other stuff, but this is not nearly as "dusty" as the big bags you buy at the local big-box stores. Anyway, I wet this well, put it in a 4" square pot (10 cm) and put 1 or 2 seed in……I use a knife to make a hole for the seed and the tip of the seed is still above soil level for mine. I then add some water to settle the seed in and then put a plastic baggie over the pot (a sandwich bag works well for me) and then put this on a heat mat. It can take 2-4 weeks for them to germinate. Once they are all up I remove the baggie and get them in to full sun as soon as they harden off. After around 3 years I move them to volcanic cinder. They love the sphagnum during the summer in the sun and wind, but honestly in the winter they are not as happy with it after 2-3 years which is why i move them to something they like better. If I lived someplace where they could stay outside all year long I would try to grow them to flowering size in sphagnum. Anyway, hope that helps :o) Dan

Dan, apparently I missed your post about your germination method (above), but I have been chatting enough with you that I did know about the moss. I have a big enough bag to repot this into a huge pot!! I am watering every morning and they are under lights that are warm during the day. Since the house never really gets cold in the summer, they seem to like it. One of the roots is pushing a seed up, so I guess that's good. I won't bother it. Maybe once my green/screenhouse is built, I'll try a couple outside year round. These were obviously really fresh and viable!

Where do you get volcanic cinder and do you use that straight?
K

Wow, good luck on the germinating. Please post picture on your progress. I love to see it.

has anyone tried using just perlite for the seedlings? i have mine sprouting in perlite an am wondering what i should be considering putting them into as they develop...

Sure, people use pure perlite or pumice or cinder all the time….you just need to water all the time, whereas I have not watered mine in the 2 weeks they have been potted. My large plants are all in pure volcanic cinder. The only reason I might switch from perlite is it has no weight compared to pumice or cinder so it is way easier for it to come out of the pot when the wind is high. If you are having good success then I would stick with it :o) Dan

thx - since they are just sprouting - i won't be worrying about wind too soon. i think when they get big enough they will go into my little greenhouse out back, it gets a few hours of morning sun and then shaded - many of my other plant seedlings are doing very well there.

I'm glad Dan has been able to share Worsleya seeds, esp with K. As posted before, my seeds came from NSW Aust. Germinated in perlite. 1 seed didn't germinate, one rotted, one yanked a couple times by a bird then died. 1 survived. That plant has been grown over the years in 1/3 peat moss & 2/3 washed granite gravel. It has divided into 6 plants and is doing well outside in Houston TX. But... has not achieved adequate size to bloom in 10 years. I have increased fertilizer a bit more this year and growth is better. Pat

Thanks Pat!! What do you do over the winter? Bright window? Having greenhouse built with completion planned for Nov 1....somehow I've outgrown a 9x9!! Imagine that!!

During hard frost I do a deep squat and grab the pot and haul it into the garage. Its about 25kilos. After temps return to normal I haul it back into the garden. Anyone have thoughts on the size of this pot? it's about 16"(40cm) tall by 8"(20cm) wide. Substrate is mostly rinsed, coarse, granite gravel.

Pat, that is a beautiful looking pot of Worsleya - Congrats!! My large ones were in 8" diameter pots until about a week ago when I moved them in to 12" diameter pots. However, mine have very few offsets so it was just the one main bulb in an 8" pot and they are perhaps 4" in diameter or so at the base. I find they can be very, very root bound and still do fine and bloom like cray so hopefully yours will soon. By the way, I'm glad I'm not the one hauling the 55 pound pot around! Dan

That's a great looking Worsleya, Pat!

Does anyone have seed this year? If so please email me at brokenchimneyfarm@gmail.com