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Well I have started harvesting my Colocasia hybrids for the season. I first pick the seed heads and take each berry and slowly pull each seed out with a pencil end. This is hard work but it is much safer than squishing the berries to try and find the seeds in all the muck.
I have now run into a problem. Colocasias produce small seeds about the size of a grain of salt. In the past I would put many seeds in one pot and rase them. I have found that it does not work well they tend to rot easily when this confined. So this year I plan to put them in cell trays of 72 per tray. I am finding that each berry can hold 1 to 25 seeds and usually its 25. So after 3 to 4 berries I have a full tray. Off the top of my head I am thinking it will take 30 to 50 trays to get all the seeds I have produced. This is will be a task because space is something I have little of in the greenhouse. I am currently using stands that has 4 shelfs each shelf holds 5 trays. If I can do well this winter and keep most alive I should have a ocean of new unusal colocasias next spring. I will be keeping my fingers crossed and trying to work out this odd problem I did not intend on.
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