My current project has been Alpinia henryi X tonkinensis. I am posting pictures of both parent plants as well as the seed pods. I have 10 pods right now and 4 are almost ripe. Waiting to see if my Alpinia latilabris X A rugosa pollination takes as well.
tonkinensis
henryi flower
tonkinensis flower
Hybrid seed pods
COOL BEANS!!..I am not into breeding them..only growing them..LOL...
What a lovely flower! I am not familiar with gengers, but I will keep an eye on this thread.
I am so interested now!
Nah it'd be a waste of my time, I'd rather buy it after someone else makes it up, LOL
Scott, Can't wait to see what you get!!! So much potential in each and everyone of those seeds. I've been thinking about growing out some Black Tulip seeds as I have lots of different torch gingers around and even if they don't cross there can be genetic diversity. I've grown out heliconia seeds before and gotten a bit of genetic diversity and currently I am growing out cordyline seeds. I admire the patience and meticulous nature of all the BrugsNuts in the Aussie Forum.
I hope you rub off on us!! BTW why did you choose those particular gingers. Regards, Ann
I am currently doing heilconias and gingers from seed wondered how long its going to take for this stuff to get going glad to see i'm not the only one. Any one else done this and can give a time frame on what i am looking at. Heilconia seeds are like little rocks they actually tink when they hit the glass hard to figure these hard as rock are seed and will grow. You have to soak them for 4 days before planting them soften them up any one else lets hear from you :)
The most important things with heliconia seeds is that they are always kept moist after harvesting. I imported them into Australia as we can no longer import rhizomes and it's the only way to get new variates in. You can be looking up to 3 years from seed for some. Here's a photo of my newest two just recently flowerd out Heliconia bihai Aurea and Heliconia bihai Granada.
Ann
very nice only on a few did I notice that a small dot of a start on the seed when I planted them. This is going to be live and learn I grow alot of seeds but never anything like this. Thanks for the pic I see a little glimmer of hope here lol I have what looks like the red one but theres proably a whole bunch of them that look simular and red they called it lobster claw
