Job's Tears, Bead Seeds, Juno's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Aug 01, 2003

Common name: Job's Tears, Bead Seeds, Juno's Tears
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Coix
Species lacryma-jobi

Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1868/

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Lenjo Mount Angel, OR(Zone 8a) Aug 02, 2003

Great to see this, I ordered seeds from Chiltern's last spring and not a one came up. The seeds are so hard. I know people who make rosaries out of the seeds.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Aug 04, 2003

Yes, I read about rosaries in some database while searching for this plant's details. It did sprout very easily and grew quickly too.

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kennyso Markham, ON(Zone 5b) Apr 15, 2006

I make roasries with these seeds, I've tried growing them but never had much success. They are so expensive to buy from bead companies.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 17, 2006

That is very pretty! I never imagined that such a lovely necklace could be made out of these! My plant too seems to have died down. But when it gave the seeds, they used to be more hollow than solid. So, I could not preserve them to be regrown. I can say my success with this plant too was poor. Perhaps it did only half agree in the tropics here. I had got it from a trade from a colder zone. That could be the reason.

Dinu

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