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Originally Posted by john "twicer "
hi mark.i bought 80 manicata seeds from ebay,there are lots for sale there.i also bought 3 plants in 9cm pot earlier this year from ebay and they are already 30cms tall and 50cms wide..i also obtained a gunnera from a garden centre,it was being sold off because it wasn't in best of condition,it's now 1 metres tall and 2 metres wide.i will try to collect my own seeds if its possible..
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ok, trade secret coming up !! if you dont know how, the hard bit is extracting the seed from said flower/seed spike but here's how I do it ! Remove the seed spike when most of the seeds are orange, put the whole thing in a large black bin bag and throw it under the bench in the greenhouse with a little water in the bag. Leave it for a couple of months and you'll end up with a brown gooey mass, tip this into a bucket, add water and agitate. then slowly overflow the bucket, which removes the 'goo' and you'll find thousands of clean seeds in the bottom of the bucket ! Make sure you remove every scrap of 'goo' as this, like most fleshy seed heads contains chemicals to inhibit germination (until spring) sow straight away on bottom heat, simple !
Lannerman.
Last year, I had thousands of seedlings