Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Seed starting MAF part 3 5/23/14, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
For those of you that got a "lady-in-red" Salvia from me--they have been blooming
away already. Mine are full size--and branching out...

Anyway--if yours are also that far along--the 1st bloom shoot by now
is done blooming and is starting to dry out. carefully, snap it off at the bottom
and put it on a big paper plate to dry. Assuming you want to collect seeds from this plant.

Each of the old. little bases where the bloom was now holds about 4 seeds.
This takes patience--but, using a wooden toothpick, you can coax the seeds out of there.
A slight squeeze with your fingernails at the base makes them almost pop out.

A leisurely chore while watching TV.

1--The harvested bloom stem
2--A close-up of the seed nubbies all up and down the stalk. THey're IN THERE!!!

G.