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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 06:38 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I cut two snowdrops and added them to a bouquet. Right now the seed pods are swelling. Does anyone know how long it takes before they start to split and the seed is available?

Also, of these Galanthus elwesii, ikariae, nivalis which will multiply the fastest? The bulb catalogs are starting to come...

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 09:29 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

TerryK, here it's usually around the first week of June that the pods are ready to harvest. The pods turn to a pale whitish in color.

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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 09:33 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I would guess that nivalis would multiply quickly, that's certainly my experience. The seed can be collected and sown in a pot and covered with sand until it ripens - this protects them from snails and slugs. Either way they are better sown fresh and will germinate in autumn or the following spring.

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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 09:42 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks, I knew I'd get some answers here quickly!

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 01:10 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hello Terry,
This is what they look like when they are ripe, you will see that the seed pods go yellow and split open revealing three compartments with seeds in. This photo is of Galanthus reginae-olgae and was photographed in Corfu last week.
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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 01:34 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Melvyn,

Do you think the ones in the little vase on the window will make it? They have begun to fatten up since I cut them.

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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 01:43 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks for showing that photo Melvyn. I too wondered how to tell when the seed pod was ripe. I didn't realise the pods went yellow....I'll have to keep my eye on my plants now, I've never managed to collect them....the insects get there before me.

A little off topic....I noticed the little 'black seed pod' in your photo; it takes me back to a time in Greece when I found quite a few of these, I started collecting them, wondering what the hard, dark coated seeds could be, when it suddenly dawned on me.....goat droppings!

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Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 02:20 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Terryk wrote on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 01:34 pm:

Do you think the ones in the little vase on the window will make it?


Terry,I rather doubt it, sorry to sound so negative but I think they take about twelve weeks to mature on the plant so even if they have been pollinated they will not get enough nutrients to produce mature viable seed when cut from the plant and placed in water.
Dee_b wrote on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 01:43 pm:

dark coated seeds could be, when it suddenly dawned on me


Dee you are by no means the first to make this mistake, as long as you didnt mistake them for olives!

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