Re: [Sansevierias] Seed cleaning

Jude Haverington <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:51:54 -0400
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Nice - are Sv's easy from seed generally ?


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:49 AM, e-mail newearth
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> Just spent a pleasant 45 minutes in the garden cleaning some seeds from
>  Sansevieria grandis var. zuluensis Bally53209. I got 29 nice large seeds
> and now have orange hands. I will probably be sowing them in the next week
> or so. The picture shows the fruits the orange ones are ripe the green ones
> unripe. They were self set.
> Now the flower spike has been cut off I can at last clean the window and
> let the light in.
> At the bottom of the picture is the top of one of the large leaves they
>  reach up to 3' long. The var. zuluensis is regarded by most as just
> grandis now but as this is from a cutting from Kew from the original Bally
> plant I'm labelling it as such. You will be able to read about this in one
> of the forthcoming ISS journals either #32 or 33 not sure which one yet.
> [image: Inline images 1]
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> *Cheers  John*
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