Have you held the seed up to the light to see if you can see an embryo? If there is one you should be able to see it. It looks sort of like a line in most lilies and frits. Jan Jeddeloh > On Mar 27, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Johannes Ulrich Urban <johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de> wrote: > > > >> Dear All, >> >> Having sown seed of a particularly large form of F. imperialis several times without success I wonder how your experience is with this plant. I have tried several different ways: sowing fresh seed immediately after ripening, sowing dried seed in autumn, keeping the seedpot either in the garden or greenhouse during winter. The mother bulb is about to flower but again not a single seed has germinated. I opened some fresh seeds before sowing, they were all thick, fleshy and white inside, not empty shells. >> Where is my mistake? Is it perhaps a sterile clone? Do they need a special treatment to break a prolonged dormancy? The seeds now feel empty and dead to the touch. >> Any advice is appreciated. >> >> Bye for today >> >> Uli >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/