Tip Tuesday: Harvesting Lithops Seeds
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2020
- In today's Tip Tuesday we are talking you through harvesting Lithops seeds! 🌱
Hope it helps! 👍
If you've got any questions leave them below and hopefully we can answer them for you on another Tip Tuesday! 🙂
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Hi Aarti, your very welcome, glad it was helpful! :D
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We call it a weed bag over here in Canada. Lmao
Haha wow really? 😂
Thank you so much guys
Your very welcome! :)
Thank you for sharing the process! How long does it take to grow the lithops till it will actually grow flowers and get seeds? I am a lithops newbie! Hopefully one day I will get my lithops to produce seeds!
Hi Dave and Wini, your welcome :) Good question, it takes about 2 to 3 years before they start flowering from a seed, depending on the variety you are growing. Once pollination has worked on the flower, it can take about six months before the seed capsule is ready to harvest. Then you need to store the seed for a few months at least before sowing to get a more consistent germination rate. Takes time unfortunately :(
@@mickssucculents Thank you so much for your reply and explanation! It takes time but it will be a rewarding experience... hopefully I will get there! :D
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Thank you so much! :D
Excelente eso quería sabe cómo sacar las semllla de la 🌱
Thank you. Putting the pods in water works best 🙂👍
Can you better explain the process between the flowering and then you are ready to put water on the seed pod? Am I hearing that it takes six months for the seeds in the pod to be ready, right? And do you keep the whole flower there to continue to dry up and not cut it off until six months until it's actually ready to be harvested? I know you might have other thoughts in-between all this but it would appear this lithops would go through a split process during this time of six months, right? If so, what happens to the seed pod then? Thanks for any answers you have as my first lithops is in the middle of flowering right now so wondering if there's anything I should do besides watering it once a week and enjoying it.
Hi Tina, sure when the time is right we can do another video on harvesting the pods and extracting the seed from them.
Yes it takes about 6 months for the seed to mature.
I leave the seed pod on the plant until the pod has completely dried up, then I will harvest the pods and later on place in water to extract the seed.
That is correct, they do go through a splitting stage while the pods are maturing. It shouldn't affect the pods at all, while they go through this process.
I would just bottom water them and wait until the mix you are growing them in is completely dry before watering them again.
I hope that helps :)
Wholly crap!
There's Way more seeds than what i was imagining, i was lucky enough to find one in the store that was already flowering. It had 5 heads all together in one little pot and 4 of them had already bloomed and dried out so when i found it the last head had just opened it's flower and when i got it home it lasted about 3 more days and just dried up yesterday.
i know it takes a while (about 8-9 months i read) for the seeds and pod to develop but it looks like one or two of the heads have already finished developing their pods, they look significantly more aged than the other pods do but i also can't say for sure if they were pollinated because i wasn't around to do it myself.
Is there a way to tell what stage they're in? Do pods ever stay connected and not open even after they've developed?
i'm in California and the weather has been really odd and all the plants don't know what to do, my tomatoes have seemingly bloomed into a harvesting phase like 3 times now having flowerd start to grow fruit and then get burnt by another heat wave only to start growing and do it all over again. Now they look like creepy Halloween decorations apart from the ends of the limbs that are fresh and full of new flowers and tomatoes. The branches would reach the roof of our house if they were strong enough to reach straight up but as it is they've grown about 6-7ft of length over the top of the 5ft tall cages we bought to help hold them up.
Yes, you can put a few drops of water on that pod and it will open up to show you if there are any seeds in it at all. That's one way of telling. Normally if the pods are completely dry and the stalk of the pod is, then it's ready to harvest 🙂👍
Yes some seasons can be very unusual. We have had deciduous fruit trees drop all their leaves twice in a summer season and flower too, which is not normal.
Hope that answers your question 🙂👍
@@mickssucculents yeah, thanks. I actually found out about water triggering them and ended up get one wet on accident when i was watering and it popped open, i collected it and what seeds i could and put them in a new little pot of their own, see what happens.
Some of my other stone faced mimicry plants that are sprouting new leaves are growing really tall, like over 2 ½ inches taller than the leaf that it's coming out of. Is that normal? I have them in loose succulent soil and i've only given them a trickle of water 3 times in the past 5 months.
Not sure what's up but they don't seem to be dying so i'm just watching to see what happens.🤷♂️
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J accidentally spilled water on top lithops and seed pods are 5 month old but they opened right up and I can see seeds inside. What can I do about it? Leave or just snip or empty out ?
Hi Juul, you can just leave it if you like. Once the pod dries, the capsule will close. If the seed pods have dried out completely, then normally it's fine to cut them off the plant. Hope that helps 🙂
Como faco para comprar sementes com vocês BRASIL
Hi Maria, unfortunately we aren't able to send our seed overseas sorry. If you are on Facebook, try and join a Lithops group. You might find someone in Brazil who may be able to sell you seed :D Hope that helps.
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