Flowering gum seeds
 

Need some help getting seeds for a flowering gum tree.
I have the trees but I don't know where the seed is.

NA wrote:

Need some help getting seeds for a flowering gum tree.
I have the trees but I don't know where the seed is.

Can you find a gum nut?
Well, they are in there.

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:56:16 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:

NA wrote:

Need some help getting seeds for a flowering gum tree.
I have the trees but I don't know where the seed is.

Can you find a gum nut?
Well, they are in there.

That thought had occurred to me so I tried to open one up.
Not any easy task and by the time I succeeded there was
nothing that resembled seed.

NA wrote:

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:56:16 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:

NA wrote:

Need some help getting seeds for a flowering gum tree.
I have the trees but I don't know where the seed is.

Can you find a gum nut?
Well, they are in there.

That thought had occurred to me so I tried to open one up.
Not any easy task and by the time I succeeded there was
nothing that resembled seed.

You are too early.

Flower buds form.
The cap drops. Copious on some species.
The flowers appear.
The bats, bees, wasps, birds, etc, etc, visit.
The flowers disappear.
The gum nut swells as the seeds grow inside.
To me, the gum nut seems to dry out a little.
Then the gum nut opens and or goes dormant for a while.

Generally, you collect a few gum nuts and leave in a paper bag for a
while. One day you will shake it and hear a pile of seeds (widely
varying sizes) rattling around.

What you can try doing is collecting some gum nuts each fortnight, bag
them, not on the bags flowering and collection dates and watch what
happens. This way, you will be able to work out how long that species
takes to grow the seeds.

Do you know anything about which "flowering gum"

The seed capsules (gumnuts) need to be collected and placed in an open container in a warm position until the fine seed is released. This should occur in 2-3 days. For best results, the capsules should be at least 12 months old (ie. the most recently formed capsules are best avoided). When planting it is usually not necessary to separate the true seed from the chaff; both can be sown together and the chaff simply becomes part of the propagating mix.

Terry Collins Wrote:
NA wrote:-

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:56:16 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
-
NA wrote:-

Need some help getting seeds for a flowering gum tree.
I have the trees but I don't know where the seed is.-

Can you find a gum nut?
Well, they are in there.-

That thought had occurred to me so I tried to open one up.
Not any easy task and by the time I succeeded there was
nothing that resembled seed.-

You are too early.

Flower buds form.
The cap drops. Copious on some species.
The flowers appear.
The bats, bees, wasps, birds, etc, etc, visit.
The flowers disappear.
The gum nut swells as the seeds grow inside.
To me, the gum nut seems to dry out a little.
Then the gum nut opens and or goes dormant for a while.

Generally, you collect a few gum nuts and leave in a paper bag for a
while. One day you will shake it and hear a pile of seeds (widely
varying sizes) rattling around.

What you can try doing is collecting some gum nuts each fortnight, bag
them, not on the bags flowering and collection dates and watch what
happens. This way, you will be able to work out how long that species
takes to grow the seeds.

Do you know anything about which "flowering gum"

The seed capsules (gumnuts) need to be collected and placed in an open
container in a warm position until the fine seed is released. This
should occur in 2-3 days. For best results, the capsules should be at
least 12 months old (ie. the most recently formed capsules are best
avoided). When planting it is usually not necessary to separate the
true seed from the chaff; both can be sown together and the chaff
simply becomes part of the propagating mix.


--
Dr Pond

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:00:46 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:


Generally, you collect a few gum nuts and leave in a paper bag for a
while. One day you will shake it and hear a pile of seeds (widely
varying sizes) rattling around.


I see. I collected gum nuts that had dropped so they had
probably dropped their seed.

What you can try doing is collecting some gum nuts each fortnight, bag
them, not on the bags flowering and collection dates and watch what
happens. This way, you will be able to work out how long that species
takes to grow the seeds.


That sounds straight forward.

Do you know anything about which "flowering gum"

No I don't - other than I'm interested in those with
redish flowers. I have one in my back yard and there
are many more (various types) in the neighbourhood. I
want the seed for a friend in southern Italy who has
many white flowering gums but no red ones.

There may be environmental reasons why there are no
red ones over there but the climate seems similar to what
we get in Melbourne.

Thanks.