Awesome Stuart! I hope the Arabicum seeds do well for you and grow fast too.

Tracy

Tracy. Thank you. When will the RCN seedlings have silver skin?

If they are similar to Black RCN you may not get all silver skinned seedlings. The skin color and intensity should start to become obvious between the age of 3 to 6 months depending on their rate of growth.

Do you have silver, gold, white and black skin?

Stuart, looking good! I have never ordered his 'Silver RCN' nor 'Black RCN', only the regular 'RCN' (which is a very nice cultivar with (almost) stable characteristics). I will follow this thread closely. ;-)

Tracy, if I recall correctly, Kesorn's website used to state something about a stem colour success percentage of 10 (1 out of 10 'Black RCN' seedlings has the paticular blackish stem colour). I am not sure about 'Silver RCN' but expect a similiar success rate.

I do have plants with those skin colors. Bang Kla will have a naturally dark skin tone and in rare occurrences you get silver skin. Nang Paya has a naturally browish golden skin. Chada Petch will have either black skin or silver skin. I will take some photos of my collection to show you Stuart.

Tracy. Thank you for the nice pics. Your plants are Fantastic.

After 7 days the seeds are not germinating yet, is something wrong?

I am in shock now...

I am crossing fingers hoping they are just slow and popping for you soon Stuart. Please keep us posted.

Tracy

Tracy. Kesorn said that the serds will sprout within 5-12 days.

There is still hope Stuart. I am thinking the seeds could be old if they are taking this long. Do keep us posted.

Bad news. After 2 weeks only one PNW was pieping. I dug up all the seeds and they were rotten.

Pieping Tom roots were rotten and planted Tom in new soil and he is doing very good now.All the Silver RCN are rotten, soft and smellow.

3 PNW were still hard and i planted them in other soil and one germinated.

Here are they todayI am happy to have these two strong baby's...

Wonder what happened? Stuart I had a batch fail to germinate when I accidentally included some fertilizer in the soil. It was bone meal I think and all of them rotted. Sorry to hear it man. Happy you have two lovelies.

Tracy

Too much water i think and the in the past few months every day rain and almost no sun.

Only one PNW survived. spider mites almost killed this one too

Glad you managed to save this one. Those Spider Mites are so relentless and can multiply so quickly.

Rick

I have lost maybe 100+ seedlings. Every time the mites are coming back.First i used neem oil and a week ago Murphy`s oil soap, Spring anti mites spray and a few days ago diazinox. They seem to gone forever?I do have something heavy (Lime Sulphur) waiting for them when they are back.

Yes those darned spider mites are a right nuisance I agree. They seem to come out of nowhere don't they?

Looks like you're ready and armed for war against them dare they ever show their faces again Stuart! Let's hope they've got the message loud and clear....STAY AWAY!

Gill