when to harvest drosera seeds

[sooxiwei]

hi to all again, I'm having my drosera burmanii and drosera capilaris flowering lately, according to some, they said have to wait till the Shell of the Seed to be dried up before harvesting, but my burmanii seed's shell have not been dried up but have spilled quite a lot of black and tiny small particles around...so would like to ask when to cut off those seeds shell, tq

[marvin1997]

I have no Idea.....Although they flowered quite a few times,I still never harvested any seed..

[plantlover]

I wait until the flowers turn brownish then I snip off the flower stalk and put those flowers in a box and squeeze them when i think its fully ripe(blackish)

[shamrock]

i harvest the seeds when the seed pod looks ready to split. i tap the pod with a finger - if it's ready, the seeds will fall out readily. i collect these in an envelope and refrigerate them.

that reminds me ... i have a few capillaris seed pods that are ripe for the picking.

[marvin1997]

Originally Posted by plantlover

I wait until the flowers turn brownish then I snip off the flower stalk and put those flowers in a box and squeeze them when i think its fully ripe(blackish)

I do that...but stil no....T.T....Capilaris flowering....do they self pollinate?Or I'll have todo the 'dirty job'?

[plantlover]

My burmanii and intermedia self-pollinate so I don't have to do that myself.

[sooxiwei]

mine has not turn black but has been falling freely without even shaking it, guess i should cut them down now, thanks for the info

[arvin555]

You have to consider that the bud/flower on the bottom was first to open, and the bud on top is the last, so they don't Ripe at the same time. I used to cut off the bud one by one from the bottom up when they start to show browning, then I put them in a bag or plastic container with a cap or cover, and I shake, the seeds will come out. Nowadays I would cut off the whole flowerstalk then put in plastic container or bag, then shake every day, eventually the upper buds will still ripen (I think) and give you seed, that is why I do this over a week or so.

By the way when you cut them, you can put a piece of paper under to catch what seeds might drop off, or maybe don't, so that those that get away will grow on the same pot as the parent. I had a pot of Capensis that was dying slowly, eventually the capensis died and recently when I checked, there were 2 burmanii plantlets in there growing, I guess it got "infected".

TTFN
Arvin

[cbkhoon]

my drosera binata is flowering, can i collect the seeds using same way?

[caseyhoo]

Originally Posted by cbkhoon

my drosera binata is flowering, can i collect the seeds using same way?

For binata, it normally dont have seed, becaseu it is not self pollinate.