Dyckias from the iceage
Verfasst: Dienstag, 25 März 2008, 22:25
Chanin, this one is for you !
It is quite a long time ago that our last remaining specimen of
Dyckia hebdingii flowered and set seeds.
To be precise it was in 1997
(if it has flowered in between, I simply forgot and ignore it for the sake of this story
At that time I started an experiment, encouraged by an old article written
by Mrs. Hromadnik. Having too much seed and no space to store them,
I tried to put them in the freezer for better days to come along with many others.
Well, even gardeners do get older and a bit forgetful.
About 4 weeks ago a colleague, responsible for the seed-bank reminded
me of that little cardboard box to do something with it,
otherwise she would toss it away.............. Ups.
Okay so I put them old seeds into soil and now look what happend
after 11 years below zero:
Freezy greetings to Thailand
Timm
It is quite a long time ago that our last remaining specimen of
Dyckia hebdingii flowered and set seeds.
To be precise it was in 1997
(if it has flowered in between, I simply forgot and ignore it for the sake of this story
At that time I started an experiment, encouraged by an old article written
by Mrs. Hromadnik. Having too much seed and no space to store them,
I tried to put them in the freezer for better days to come along with many others.
Well, even gardeners do get older and a bit forgetful.
About 4 weeks ago a colleague, responsible for the seed-bank reminded
me of that little cardboard box to do something with it,
otherwise she would toss it away.............. Ups.
Okay so I put them old seeds into soil and now look what happend
after 11 years below zero:
Freezy greetings to Thailand
Timm