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Author Message   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 01:18 pm EST :    Erna, welcome to Gardenbuddies, we hope to hear from you often. Guff, you are going to be one busy guy soon with all your seed germinating. When do you plan on transplanting them? Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Wilsonae_cyclamen  My Weather Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 03:10 pm EST :    Terry, After the blizzard how are your cyclamen babies faring in your new cyclamen bed - well I hope? I am curiously yellow - smile! Let me know when you've had time to dig yourself out from under, and how are your cyclamen doing otherwise? All is quiet on the western front - presumably work has settled down and you can get back to the more serious work of cyclamen and more cyclamen not to mention all your hellebore seedlings, I know your cyclamen flowered, did your hellebore or cyclamen set seeds? Reply when time permit - take care and keep well. wilsonae cyclamen Wilsonae_cyclamen - New York, Zone "6 "   Guff  Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:52 am EST :    TerryK, sometime in the spring. Thought I would share a little tip. I would keep your pots covered with plastic after your seeds have germinated for awhile, so the seed coats don't dry out. With plastic, the seeds are kept moist enough, and the seed leaf comes out of the seed coat very easy on their own. My first batch of seeds that I started this year, I didn't keep plastic on top of the pot, and the seed coats would dry out, therefore the seed leaf wouldn't be able to break out of it. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Guff  Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 09:52 pm EST :    A little update on one of my cyclamen from last year. This is the same one I posted pictures of before, my biggest and fastest growing one. I counted 7 grow tips forming. I think they went dormant when I had brought them indoor in October. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Guff  Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 12:08 pm EST :    Close up of one of my pots. Last year, the leaf took forever to unroll, and were much bigger in size, when they did finally unroll. Not too sure what the difference was from last year and this year. They seem to be doing very well. Still only 3 of the C. Purpurascens have germinated. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Tony_willis  Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 01:42 pm EST :    hi Guff I think you should not be surprised at your purpruascens germination.I have produced masses of seed pods and only a few mature. These then produce few seeds which germinate.I have a nice plant with pewter leaves which I have been trying to propagate from for years. I have produced only a few seedlings and these have been nothing like the parent. I get lots of fertile seed of other species. Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"   Guff  Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 02:27 pm EST :    Tony_willis, yes I have noticed purpruascens is more difficult, since the seeds germinate whenever. The longer seeds take to germinate, more can go wrong. I guess I will be happy with my 3 seedlings. I will purchase more seed in the summer. I bought two packets and they were labeled 15, but they had close to 20 per pack. So 3 out of 30-40 isn't very good, but who knows maybe a couple more will pop up. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 02:30 pm EST :    I just checked in to see the additional posts. Wilson, I escaped the storm and I am in St. Martin on vacation, so no idea how my cyclamen outdoors are doing. I hear that the weather turned warm and windy again, maybe when I get back I can check on them. Funny two years ago-summer of 2005 really, I had some of Tim's C. purpurascens seed and it germinated and I actually had it flower for me last fall. This year I got some other seed from Seneca Hill and they did not germinate yet. So I guess Guff, maybe next year you will want to try some of Tim's seed and sow it as soon as you get it. Tim had mentioned that this species could be a problem, but my first batch germinated well. Also, Guff, I have not covered my pots with any plastic. I know Ellen from Seneca Hill does include it in her instructions. I just have used grit-as you can imagine this was Tim's suggestion and I have had very good germination with most of my seed so far-the room is a testament to that! Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Guff  Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 03:04 pm EST :    TerryK, the plastic, is just so after the seeds have germinated, that the seed coats don't dry out. If they do dry out, the seed leaf won't be able to break out of the seed coat. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 12:15 am EST :    I have not found this happening on my cyclamen Guff, but have had it happen on my hellebores more. I find on the hellebores, that the true leaf comes along and pushes itself up and forces the seed leaves apart if they have not done so on their own. But what ever works to get the final result is a good technique to try. Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Guff  Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:56 am EST :    Thought I would do an update. First two pictures are of a couple pots of the well marked hederifolium. I really like the looks of these, I think this seed is from higher quality plants , then last years. The third picture, it was hard to get a good picture. I have the seedling circled, what I see is two plants from one seed. There are two corms forming, and I think maybe they also have their own seed leaf as well inside the seed coat. Tim is this something you have seen? The last picture is an update on the P.G. Victoria. I put an arrow next to what I think is a flower forming. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Guff  Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 12:39 pm EST :    P.G. Victoria First picture is my biggest and fastest growing. Second and third pictures are of a couple others plants that are starting to turn out nicely as well. Nice marking on the leaves. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Guff  Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 11:48 am EST :    C purpruascens, I have given up hope of anymore germinating, three will have to do for now. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Guff  Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 12:48 pm EST :    Update on P.G. Victoria. I can see 6 flowers forming so far. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Galanthophile  My Favorite Photo My Garden Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 01:15 pm EST :    Looking good! Galanthophile - Ann (Northern England), Zone "8"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 07:23 pm EST :    Fantastic! Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Wilsonae_cyclamen  My Weather Posted on Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 01:12 pm EST :    Hi Terry, Remember those Hellebore seeds you so generously gave me last year; well to date 4 have germinated - two with seed pod casing intact. At least that is what I think they are? They are so very different than cyclamen seeds with two cotyledons which are more robust but nevertheless so tiny. I can't imagine that they will mature into full blown hellebore some day soon - smile! Should I try removing them or just ignore them? Presumably others will be germinating shortly? I used my recycled cyclamen seed compost to germinate said hellebore seeds and was rewarded with several cyclamen seedlings within the year; don't throw out pots of ungerminated seeds no matter what seems like very good advice - smile! Quite a few of my cyclamen hederifolium are setting seeds and with a little luck will have seeds to plant providing all continue to go well! My other cyclamen are growing on - the smattering of more mature cyclamen one or two specimens each of coum, pseudibericum and purpurascens are coming along but no flowers to date. For whatever reasons the few flowers that appear abort - withering and drying up; too little or too much water? maybe they will set seeds later in the year? How fare your cyclamen and hellebore indoors and outdoors? Spring is fast approaching - so what new gardening projects are in the works? wilsonae cyclamen Wilsonae_cyclamen - New York, Zone "6 "   Guff  Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:45 pm EST :    Thought I would post some pictures of a couple pots, and one silver leaved hederifolium that has some very pretty markings. I have a couple silver leaved hederifolium that have a Christmas tree pattern, when they get bigger, I will post a picture. Looking at my well marked hederifolium pots, I do see some with silver tones and edges. It will be interesting comparing them and deciding which I like better "well marked" or "silver leaved" hederifolium. Guff - NY, Zone "?"   Tim  Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 03:11 pm EST :    I've enjoyed all of your recent photos, Guff. It's good to see that you are clearly enjoying your cyclamen. You are going to have some fine C. hederifolium in the not too distant future, that's for sure. Tim - Cambridgeshire, Zone "7 "   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 08:17 pm EST :    Wow they are really coming along Guff! As nice as those leaves are (and they are) you can not imagine how they get even better. When do you plan on re-potting them? Terryk - NY, Zone "6"

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