Scadoxus seed to bloom
J.E. Shields (Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:51:15 PST)

Hi Doug and all,

I have raised Scadoxus multiflorus katherinae and S. puniceus from seed.

Batch of 5 seeds of puniceus planted in summer 1997: 1 plant bloomed last
year (in 5 years), same plant is blooming this year again, no others form
that batch have bloomed

Batch of 6 seeds planted in Dec 1998: one is apparently getting ready to
bloom, no others from the batch show any signs of blooming; this would be
about 4+ years for the one bloom

Batch of 50 seeds of katherinae planted in Oct 1997: 5 have bloomed, in
2001 and 2002, most are still too small (I left a lot of them in small
community pots for too long). So a couple bloomed in 4 years, some more
bloomed in 5 years.

Out of each batch, it seems that some may never grow large enough to bloom.

Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)

At 02:45 PM 2/15/03 -0800, you wrote:

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