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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: kot on April 28, 2014, 05:55:45 PM

Title: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: kot on April 28, 2014, 05:55:45 PM

Looking for fresh seeds of Helleborus thibetanus
Kot

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: PeterClegg on July 11, 2014, 12:08:14 PM

Hi
I have 30 + thibetanus seeds spare , let me have your address and will post some to you .

Regards

Pete

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: Chris Johnson on July 11, 2014, 12:31:06 PM

Quote from: PeterClegg on July 11, 2014, 12:08:14 PM

Hi
I have 30 + thibetanus seeds spare , let me have your address and will post some to you .

Regards

Pete

Hi Peter

I would appreciate one or two seeds if you have them spare. It's a plant I had for a number of years but it succumbed to the move.

Regards, Chris

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: PeterClegg on July 11, 2014, 01:21:54 PM

Hi Chris
let me have your address and will get them off to you tomorrow , will send 15 and 15 to kot when he replies .

Cheers

Pete

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: mark smyth on July 11, 2014, 06:00:17 PM

I have never has seeds germinate. This is for potted and seeds that have fallen around the parent plant. Is it because I need more than one plant in the garden for fertilisation?

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: Chris Johnson on July 11, 2014, 07:04:04 PM

Quote from: PeterClegg on July 11, 2014, 01:21:54 PM

Hi Chris
let me have your address and will get them off to you tomorrow , will send 15 and 15 to kot when he replies .

Cheers

Pete

Much appreciated, Pete. Message sent this afternoon.

Best, Chris

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: Stephen Vella on July 15, 2014, 03:11:54 AM

Mark your seed should be fertile.. This particular sp shows cotyledons in its second year, needing 2 cold periods.. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I've sown them in pots and they have come up but they are very much loved by snails and easily mown over by them so it might be the snails got to them before u did.. ??

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: Ulla Hansson on July 15, 2014, 08:32:30 AM

Mark, you only need one plant for seed. I only have one plant, and my seeds from this plant has germinated.
They usually germinate the year after sowing.
They have a peculiarity that I have not seen on other Helleborus when they germinate. When the seed germinates and is going up, so is the blade stuck in the seed. All while the stem continues to grow. This has the consequence that the stalk is broken and then it looks like a snail have grazed the blade.
Not everyone in a seed pot but they may be many who do so, and different from year to year.
Some years all work as they should.
I have wondered why, but has no answer.

Title: Re: fresh seed H.thibetanus
Post by: kot on July 16, 2014, 05:46:25 AM

hello,
Helleborus seeds for sowing must be fresh. Then they will begin to grow in the autumn. Seeds are mature enough viable and must have a long period of stratification. Sowing the seeds a few months after seed harvest is ineffective.
kot