Bulbs: Cyclamen coum, 0 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
I'll keep it in mind Todd and Happy!
What would be the most likely time for the seeds to be ripe enough to harvest so I can be vigilant at the appropriate time..
I have watched the process of other types of cyclamen in the past like wallaby describes it ; the flower stems winding into a corkscrew and the fattening of the seed buds, and the baby cyclamen that only had one root and clump up around the mother plant, that also happens with C.hederifolium that spread happily under my birch tree.

When I bought the Pewter-leaved ones they were planted very shallow in their pot, showing almost the entire corm, is that normal and should I have planted them so shallow in the full ground ? I planted one in a larger container and the other two in full soil, but a bit deeper, just covering the corm.

I also wonder about the 'leaf mix dug from the drain', wallaby.
Does that has to be well decomposed (ripened) or can it also be halfway ?

The flower of the silver-leaved .C.coum