Re: [aroid-l] A. kiusianus germination

From: StroWi at t-online.de (StroWi) on 2002.09.29 at 20:48:00(9470) Harry, that was really a VERY nice report! I can imagine the kids having fun and helping Grandpa to do this laborous planting of the seeds..... Reminds me very much of my own kids, aged 4 3/4 and 2 3/4; I always freeze with horror when I hear them in my "Wintergarten" where they are not allowed to go unattended. I always thought, that it would be over when they will be grown up (and will have left the house...), but your mail opended, my eyes... ...there might be progenies...... With deep sympathy, Bernhard. +More Dollbergen Germany approx. zone 6/7 "Harry Witmore" schrieb: > Since I was the source of the seeds let me explain exactly why they were not > sent in berry. All I sent them to have already heard it but if you have > small children or even grandchildren (I got these), you will be interested. > I had quite a few if these berries, 60 I guess. I took about half for myself > and offered the rest to the group. I cleaned and soaked mine per Petra's > advice and left the rest to ripen in place. > > I decided it was time to offer the rest because they all seemed ripe. I sent > out the note and got a great response. So, my plan was to go out Monday > morning and begin to send them out. I left them to be picked Monday. > Grandkids came over Sunday and played in the garden while I made supper. > > I went out Monday to pick the berries. To my surprise they had all succumbed > to finger blight and were no where to be seen. As they day go brighter I > went back out and began scanning the ground for seeds, berries, anything I > could find. I began to locate seeds that had already been extracted from the > berries. I collected about 15 of these. The more I searched I began to find > a large number of berries buried in the ground close to the parent plant. > They were all intact and I saved these for the folks that wanted them > outside the US. I washed the others and packed them in sphagnum. I shipped > them out as soon as I got addresses. > > They never had a chance to dry out since it had rained Sunday night. Turns > out the grandkids had so much fun with me planting 4 o'clock seeds they > decided to expand and these Amorph berries were too tempting and they > squeezed some out on the ground and the rest they dug a hole and 'planted' > > So if you have young kids around make sure you protect yourself from this > kind of 'finger blight'. > > Harry Witmore > Cloud Jungle Art > www.witmore.net > >

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