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In article , Sacha writes: | | Obviously things take a bit longer to filter down to the west country. ;-) | What do you do to the seeds before sowing them? By that, I mean do you just | scoop them out of the fruit, gloop and all and plant them, or do you rinse | them in cold water to get rid of the gloop and then plant them? I did the former, roughly. Why not try both? Oh, by the way, the other common name is Queen of the Night - which, given David Poole's description, is not unreasonable. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Sacha wrote:
On 14/11/07 18:28, in article , "Les Hemmings" wrote: Sacha wrote: Captivated by the colour, I bought one of these the other day and we ate it this morning. Doesn't taste of anything much but I wondered if anyone had tried growing it from the seeds? They romp away from seeds. Got a pot of 20 plants on the windowsill. Must seperate them and pot them up properly... Les Obviously things take a bit longer to filter down to the west country. ;-) What do you do to the seeds before sowing them? By that, I mean do you just scoop them out of the fruit, gloop and all and plant them, or do you rinse them in cold water to get rid of the gloop and then plant them? If I remember I scooped some gloop onto a teaspoon and then dotted it about onto the compost and sieved a little compost VERY thinly over the top. No mould or fungus just loads of very strange little seedlings. Starting out like leaved succulents with two fleshy cotyledon leaves and then launching into full, single stemmed cactus mode. They seem to have a long, thin stalk preceding the large, fleshy cactus bit... Very strange little things... Les -- Remove Frontal Lobes to reply direct. "These people believe the souls of fried space aliens inhabit their bodies and hold soup cans to get rid of them. I should care what they think?"...Valerie Emmanuel Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA |
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On 15/11/07 08:43, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote: In article , Sacha writes: | | Obviously things take a bit longer to filter down to the west country. ;-) | What do you do to the seeds before sowing them? By that, I mean do you just | scoop them out of the fruit, gloop and all and plant them, or do you rinse | them in cold water to get rid of the gloop and then plant them? I did the former, roughly. Why not try both? Good idea. I'll have to remember to label them 'gloop' and 'no gloop'. Oh, by the way, the other common name is Queen of the Night - which, given David Poole's description, is not unreasonable. Pretty name, too. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 15/11/07 11:24, in article ,
"Martin" wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:05:37 +0000, Sacha wrote: On 15/11/07 08:43, in article , "Nick Maclaren" wrote: Oh, by the way, the other common name is Queen of the Night - which, given David Poole's description, is not unreasonable. Pretty name, too. It doesn't mean something else? Er, no, I think that particular misnomer is "Lady of........" ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
Oh, by the way, the other common name is Queen of the Night - which, given David Poole's description, is not unreasonable. The 'original 'QOTN' is supposed to be Selenicereus grandiflorus, but it seems that almost any night blooming cactus is dubbed with the same name nowadays. Just goes to prove that any reliance on common names is risky at best. There's a superficial similarity in flower shape, size and colour, but see the two side-by-side and they are very different. |
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In article , Dave Poole writes: | | Oh, by the way, the other common name is Queen of the Night - which, | given David Poole's description, is not unreasonable. | | The 'original 'QOTN' is supposed to be Selenicereus grandiflorus, but | it seems that almost any night blooming cactus is dubbed with the same | name nowadays. Just goes to prove that any reliance on common names | is risky at best. There's a superficial similarity in flower shape, | size and colour, but see the two side-by-side and they are very | different. That fails to surprise me :-) I have, of course, not seen either bloom! But they do sound impressive by any standards! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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