Monday, July 16, 2012

What is it?

Thia is a ripening seed pod of a Haworthia limifolia featured here before. The 50 cm flower stalk and around 70 flowers weren't in vain after all! The other parent is probably Astroloba skinneri - since the plants are similar and have been flowering together since weeks - probably pollinated by some insect. I'm curious to see the seeds :)

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  1. Little winged seeds, probably. I wonder if the seedling will be slooooow growing as Astroloba or faster (still slowish) of Haworthia! LT

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    1. Can't wait to find out :)
      (could take long though..)

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  2. Great looking pod, lucky you. Cannot wait to see how the offspring turns out, and the blue sky outside looks like magic; surprisingly, the weather in Sydney has been very good too, for winter, although slightly chilly at night. Rika, a question off topic; I'm getting 2 hours of arvo winter sunlight (from 12-2pm), what do you think is better; direct sunlight on the balcony, or filtered through glass pane sunlight, for Lithops I mean? Thanks Rika! :-)

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    1. I've only "catched" the blue sky - it's raining here and is cold since weeks unfortunately..
      I don't think winter sun would be a problem for winter-lithops. After all they have their old leaves on which have survived the summer sun. ;) If there are small seedlings or plants in an advanced stage of regeneration now you should keep an eye on them. Even though it doesn't appear dangerous to me putting lithops in the direct winter sun, I have never grown lithops semewhere without the glass pane (see-through)! So I don't know if you should listen to my opinion :) Behind glass is probably the safer way.

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    2. Thanks Rika! Really appreciate it. :-)

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