Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Clivia seed, need help, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
LOL Linda, I am such a show off. LOL. But if you could see what I did to that beauty you would cry. I put it outside last month thinking it needed some cold to flower. I had kept it inside and treated it like gold. I put all my var. ones outside in a very protected place. And all of them got terrible leaf damage in just 2 days. I have no clue how. So now I need to go find myslef another beauty I can adore.

I hate to say this but I toss seeds from lots of my clivia. I am mostly interested in only growing variegated clivia so I toss the green ones. I am so pathetic about sending things out but maybe I can get it together to send you a couple of yellow flowered clivia seeds I have going to waste. I am sending some out this week to a friend in Canada and have no excuse why I couldn't send some to you too. I should have more extras later in the month Lin for you too. But always remember how pathetic I am and unreliable.

Well, those in photo were put up 12/21/06 and you see them today with one just starting to poke thru and the rest up in varying degrees. So awhile. I have emailed Mary asking her method again. She is the expert, I know so little.

All I know is that the worry is too many of those seeds will be albino and thus no good from that huge red berry. So I kept them all but 3 just so I get a few good ones. They are my very first special seeds to sow. I have done many others but not special ones.

Here is the flower stalk which is so variegated that I think the variegation bodes poorly for the seeds. I have asked a clivia group for their sage advice on them. I am such a novice that jumped in with both feet 2 years ago but really hard last year and really have no clue.