NoelCalvert's blog: Planting of unknown aroid seed.

Hello everyone,

This plant dropped the fruit it had when I collected it.  I am still attempting to get a positive ID on this plant.  LariAnn told me it may be Anthurium faustomirandae.  Dr. Thomas Croat seemed to think it may be a new plant he has recently described that he calls Anthurium ramosense Croat.  

I allowed the fruit to continue to ripen in a drawer, & started removing seed last night after I noticed segments beginning to fall free from the fruit.  As per directions from LariAnn, I cleaned the seeds, & soaked them overnight in clean water(she suggested distilled, but I do not have that available). 

12/20/12

Here are photos of the seeds planted in egg carton with a soil rich in organic matter.  The reason it is so black is the ash, & burned wood in the mix. 

I assume after inspecting the tiny seeds closely that this type of seed needs light to germinate, & would die if allowed to dry.  I am currently looking for more information on this, but this seems to be the normal mode for tropical plants.  More as these seeds germinate, or whatever happens.

Edit: 12/27/2012

The seeds have begun to turn completely green, & some have begun to germinate.  This is much faster than the anticipated times listed on the various sites I checked about seeds of these type (4-6 weeks estimated)  Pictures to come in the morning.

Edit:  All the seeds which had light began to germinate, & some are showing the first leaf. 

Note:  I covered some of the seeds to test my thought that they need light to grow.  So far none of the covered seeds have germinated.  I plan to remove them from the soil, & try to germinate them again when I return from Ecuador this weekend.

Note:  This seed seems to exhibit something strange to me.  Part of the cloning process for cloning plants is producing a mass of undifferentiated cells to cultivate into multiple plants.  These seeds seem to do this as well.  Look at the growth protruding from each of the seeds.  The leaf on the latter pictures springs up from this mass , but so far I do not see any root growth.

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