Polianthes seed

Dennis Kramb dkramb@badbear.com
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:05:56 PDT
i would pot it up and put it on a sunny windowsill.   ive grown lots of
Polianthes and Manfreda this way.   could yours be P. bundrandtii?

On Oct 17, 2016 7:05 PM, "Kathy Stockman" <kitetimer@yahoo.com> wrote:

> My ID on this plant is suspect because none of the available pictures are
> an exact match. but it is the closest I can do. A Polianthes (not tuberosa,
> it has tubular dark dusky pinkish flowers downward drooping and scattered
> along the top four feet of the 5.5 foot or 1.8 meter stalk) that I received
> from PBS a number of years ago set seed for the first time. Not expecting
> anything and being a casual aficionado, I thought I would see if I could
> get germination by placing them on a wet paper towel. One has germinated
> and now I don't know what to do. I plan on placing it in a pot with equal
> parts sand and peat moss, as recommended here, but does anyone have any
> other suggestions? Keep it warm, keep it cold? Presumably it needs light
> because that is what it has been getting.
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