Hi! I hope you don't mind me joining the semp seed party! My grandfather always had pots of semps in his garden, I remember him telling me that a bird/the wind had dropped a seed and it grew into his first plant quite by accident, he potted it up they have been in the garden in varying numbers ever since! As a child I can remember spending many happy hours trying to count the many many rosettes in each of his pots. He passes away 2 years ago and I never thought to ask what they were called, untill I happened upon some pictures online yesterday when looking for succulent seeds. I tried growing cacti this time last year and ended up with more seedlings than I knew what to do with (the cat on the other hand managed to upset half my crop which helped with numbers
) Then just before Chistmas I saw beautiful pics of aloe polyphylla's and couldn't reasist the spiral so had to order some seeds along with some lithops seeds. Then, as I said, I was browsing the web yesterday afternoon and came across some of my Grandad's favourites and couldn't resist a packet of 200 seeds! A little more googling lead me to this thread and all your wonderful pictures documenting semp seed growth. You all have such beautiful collections!!! Anyway, that turned into more of an intro than I meant it to! I'm hoping that my seeds will be here Monday orr Tuesday so I can mae a start on my own little semp colony. Did you put your seeds inthe fridge/freezer for a time before you planted them? Has anyone used a heated propergator to set them off? I'm in the UK so I'm not sure if our temps would be adequate at this time of year just to put them in a baggie, but I don't want to coook them in the propergator either.....
I look forward to getting to know you all xxx