Re: [Aroid-l] Growing Anthurium from seeds

From: hermine <hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2009.01.26 at 01:12:23(18980) At 10:26 AM 1/25/2009, Betsy Feuerstein wrote: First of all, if you have the seed,get them planted. These are not long delay seeds. There are as many waysto do anthurium seeds as there are attempters. I have grown and amgrowing many thousands of anthurium seeds. Some do great. Others are apain in the petute...lucky to get one out of 100 and others, you couldforget. Growing anthurium cutucuense was impossible for me. Got them upto about one inch and that was that no matter what conditions I put themunder. Now realize this is a fairly high altitude specie and thatmay have been the cause of my challenge. this is pretty much my experience with all seeds and fern spores too. themost important thing is fertile seed/spore, and after than a combo ofcleanliness, by which i mean a growing condition uncontaminated by thingswhich would or could or will overgrow the seed. for me this used to bealgae, the bane of filmy fern cultivation. the only other thing isto remove anything with mildew. and warmth. humidity. after that itis one big crapshoot. I just reluctantly threw out some seed which hadbeen sitting on top of the computer with a temperature monitor strip, itjust got so far and overnight, all the seed turned to white furry ballsof MUSH. this was from a caudiciform Madagascan tree. Sobbingand rending of garments. Soon i am going to lightly sandpaper some seed, and pour boiling water onit and let it sit for 24 hours. before planting it. It seems i hardlyplant anything lately without some violence, setting it on fire, toastingit in the oven, or taking a file to it savagely. hermine HTML +More --=====================_702559843==.ALT----==============V66243085767285829=

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