Looks great Bea, just hope mine come back after the winter! I have one group that has come back for 3 or 4 years and have got slightly bigger each year. It was sold as a spotty dotty but looks very different from Dick's

it is raining today so cannot linger in the garden or any outdoors
so i decided to play in the greenhouse
the last but not least seed pods (RedPanda X Kaleidoscope) turned out to be the least


BUT
something i did not mention previously because i figured it would also be empty as it has been the last 2 years, my 3 year old seedling SDK seed pods
which i have been trying to pollinate W/ Kaleidoscope Took


i opened the first one Very Happy to see seed
and it seems the SDK's inherited SD's seed covering which is not as messy as K


opened all 3 & the seed look good


now will wait to see what they become
to the left of the red line is seed from a pod i tested of K and to the right are the new SDK x K

Glade you got some seed , to bad about the Red Panda. I was interested in what you would have gotten from them.

maybe next year Red Panda might make some good pollen and i will try both ways

have a cpl hundred K seed to deal with soon
plus maybe approx 50+ SDK seed
i didn't do any KSD this time
and i put all the other Podo specie's out in the Garden
hoping they will gain enuff to produce

it was raining again today so i played in the greenhouse again
boy was i wrong on the SDK count




sure are easier to get out then K's

@Strever../ what medium are the seeds sitting in ?
I hope they all work out for you.

hi Bea
the seed medium in the pict is Rockwool i have left over from years ago
it is now expensive compared to when i bought it years ago
but if i didn't have it i would use fine seed starter soil in multi hole starter trays
or seed starting plug kits like from home depot or your nursery
anything sterile for the seed to start in is fine
as long as you keep it moist not soggy
the rockwool is just easy to use
and last year i had a lot of seed in the garden also germinate

today i did 5 Kaleidoscope pods
i soaked them first in hot tap water
then left them to dry


and after an hour picking the dry mucilage off which requires thumb nails
and i didn't have to wash my hands after each seed like when it is fresh gooey
i decided to use 2 different sterile artificial soils for them (Rockwool and small jiffy plugs)

Strever… Nice job. I use jiffy plugs so easy peasy..
There's more than one way to obtain a green thumb.. peal gooey seeds all day.

it seems some lessons take for ever to learn
i put the Kaleidoscope seed in both the Rockwool and Jiffy peat plugs at the same time
and this is first time i have noticed a diff in germination time
Rockwool


Peat plugs