this computer only goes back to 2004 and i have images of it then
i think i got it around that time

i have been loosing seed pods the last cpl weeks
most of them are small undeveloped but now i have lost a cpl bigger ones
i thought i would show one of the pods i had high hopes for that didn't make it
this is an imperial sunrise pollinated by Spotty Dotty
you can see all the seeds that might have been possible if the pollination had taken

looking closer i could see the one seed that tried & made the pod grow
but the plant either got too hot during the heat wave or was too young

and another plant bit the dust
a pleianthum x delavayi = strong silent type

and looking closer at the pleianthum cross i can see 3 maybe 4 seed one almost big enuff to plant which i will do
my cross was with Kaleidoscope

i figured i would show some seed pods that are still looking viable

Kaleidoscope


plain ol Pleianthum


Red Panda


Spotty Dotty


and the other Imperial sunrise with hopefully 1 good one of the 2

Well after all your hard work I am glade it looks like you will get some good seeds.
I went out the other day to collect seeds from some of the streaked Hosta and they were just about all gone. No Deer can get in yard and have never seen anything else go for their seeds so not sure what ate them.

Deer have nipped off almost all of my Fuchsia buds, not sure of what colors some are now
you know we can eat the fruit of Fuchsia if you don't want to mess with the seed
most of them are kinda sweet
but the Deer didn't touch the Kaleidoscope with seed pods in the garden
as matter fact they don't touch the podo's at all

Even though Deer can eat toxic plants I would think they would avoid them if they have other choices. And from the look of your gardens they have lots to choice from.

I use the product PlantSkydd, liquid form; have great success keeping the deer and rabbits away.

That product does work well.

sadly the Red Panda bought the farm and took the seed pods with it


seems almost all of the new other Podo's i have been trying to cross
are not as stable as the ones i have raised for years
and the plants are giving up the ghost too early
maybe next year when they are older and more experienced they will try harder

By bought the farm it sounds like you lost the plant, I hope not.

bought the farm = gave up this season early
should come back next spring

Glade that is not a plant I would want to lose.

Well
it looks like this season is winding down
the regular pleianthum plant was collapsing so i grabbed the one pod that had survived and opened it
low and behold there were some viable looking seed


i checked the plant to make sure it was OK and not dying, and it has new starts for next spring


cleaned all the seed in the pod and it looks like maybe only two are viable ?


but will put all of them in the seed tray


so i thought maybe i should look at more pods, and picked a small pod off one of the Kaleidoscope


a k1 x iS Kaleidoscope mother & Imperial sunrise father
plus i took the smaller of two pods off the Red Panda group
RP2 x iS Red Panda group mother w/ Imperial sunrise father , but only one seed


so it looks like i have a lot of seed to start collecting
all those large ones in the pict above are Kaleidoscope x Kaleidoscope

I am glade you are getting some seeds to work with.

i started picking seed pods today and started on the new imported
first was iS2xSD imperial sunrise x spotty dotty = not good


next was RP2xK1 Red Panda group x kaleidoscope = a tiny bit better


then i decided to start on the Kaleidoscope pods
first was K1iS Kaleidoscope x imperial sunrise = not bad




next was KSD which last year looked good but they are sorta weak
so i didn't do a lot of them, 2 pods = not very promising

then the only pods left were Kaleidoscope
and it looks like i kinda went over board
here are the first 7 and there are 22 more
and i almost forgot there are maybe approx 15 or so SDK pods also




and here is only one of them with 30 seed


what seemed an hour later but time stamp says 30 min


does anybody know an easy way to get that fleshy stuff off the seed
it is messy, sticky and slow

here they are 3 hrs later, i did take 30 min for a snack so it only took 2 1/2 hrs
used the water hose and a sifter from the kitchen (don't tell my wife)



and here they are all stuffed away to grow into little Kaleidoscopes



the math says i have another 10 to 12 hours work collecting seed
please someone give me an answer