Are you saying that you cut off an Eucomis flower spike, put it in water, and it rooted ? Has anyone tried this with its leaves? ______________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you want to receive my plant newsletters via email? santoury@aol.com The Silent Seed - Rare and Unusual Plants ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Max Withers <maxwithers@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thu, Jan 5, 2012 10:09 am Subject: Re: [pbs] Question about harvesting seed last year I put a blooming Eucomis reichenbachii inflorescence in a bud vase. It did not set seed, but it rooted. On Jan 5, 2012 12:04 PM, "Fred Biasella" <fbiasella@watertownsavings.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > For the past 3 years or so I have been cutting off the scapes of Eucomis > after they flower but before the seed ripen and threw them on the > "composting" pile in the garden. Not only did they finish ripening but they > also sprouted the following spring, despite our rather brutal winter. So > you can add Eucomis to this list of harvesting seeds after the scape is > removed. > > Regards, > Fred Biasella > Cambridge (Boston) MA > USDA Zone 6b > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >