Update of the 20th of June 2017.

I have received quite a lot of seeds, nepenthes, caralluma, edithcolea, but I'm still waiting for many more seeds. However I will cut down on cactus seeds, because the rainy season is starting and I'm lacking space to grow succulents or cacti. :( :( 

I don't know if you can spot it, but this is a plant of asparagus aethiopicus starting to grow. I found some seeds on the street and decided to sow it. It didn't grow for a while so I "threw" it and now two are growing. 

I received seeds of Ipomoea albivenia, which gives a caudex and so far 5 seeds are growing. Let's see how they will develop.

My seeds of guaya are slowly growing. Only the seeds without the outer coat are growing and they have actually even opened their first leaves.

I bought some seeds of Albuca spiralis and one is growing and even giving its first true leaf. I can't wait to see it grow with its curled leaves.  

 Apparently the myrmecophila sp I received a while back will give me a flower. I'm quite happy to see how it will develop.

One of my birthday present, a Tibouchina, apparently it is adapting as it is giving me new flowers and it looks like it is growing. The weird thing is that the color on the picture is quite different from its true color. 

My sarcostemma viminale are growing and I think I need to repot them. I will try to do it this weekend or when I will be on holidays next month.

I received some seeds of Lotus from Thailand. It said that I needed to file them, so I filed them, it was quite hard to file, the outer coat is quite hard. Once I filed them until I saw a white point, I put them into water and in a few hours it would swell and after a couple of days, the sprout appeared. I got 8 out of 10.

About two weeks ago, I bought some Jamaica (hibiscus sabdariffa) seeds. The bag said they would germinate in 10 days, after a day they were already germinating. They were quite fast to grow. 

I also bought petunia seeds, that germinated quite fast and many of them. This is an experiment to see if I can grow petunia, I had one but it died because it dried up.

 My cashew seeds are germinating, giving roots, I'm just waiting for them to come out of the soil. My cashew tree (it is 2 years old) is doing pretty well.

I bought a mamey a while back, I wanted to know if it tastes better than in my memory and I also thought I could sow it. The fact is that I still don't like the taste of mamey, but I will have a mamey tree. I just put it into soil without doing anything special. 

My frangipani has finally flowered and revealed its colour. It is pinkish, I am so happy, the wait was quite long but totally worthy. 

 My selenicereus/epiphyllum are growing side branches, they are so small though.

 The pithaya season has begun and I will eat this fruit as much as I can, I just love it. And I thought I could try to sow some. But I didn't want to sow them on soil, but on bark because it is an epiphytic cactus. I don't know if it will work, though, but I have nothing to lose.

I received 50 seeds of Caralluma speciosa and 100 of Edithcolea grandis. As I have often a problem with fungi, I decided to soak them overnight in water with hydrogen peroxide, but they didn't germinate after 2 days as I am used to with other stapeliads. I thought the seeds were not good, so I soaked all the seeds I had left in regular water and then put them on damp paper (as usual), they started to germinate after one day. So far I have about 50 Caralluma and 30 Edithcolea.

  

My vanda is doing great, growing new leaves, getting new roots. I'm really looking forward to seeing its flowers. 

My baobab are doing well, some have so beautiful roots. 

  

I received my cuttings of Epiphyllum from Germany, everything was fine except that one turned yellow. The one I really want is actually already growing some roots, so I'm super happy. I hope I will have luck with them, like I have with epiphyllum pumilum.

  

 Two plumeria cuttings that I found in front of my door. I hope I will be able to grow them. 

My lemon cutting is finally growing roots after about 3 months. Still no sign of growth though.

My bauhinia are doing fine, they are producing a lot of flowers, and sometimes they even want to produce flowers on the side.  

A cutting of Plumeria I had found on the street is finally growing roots, they take quite a while to produce roots but now it is on. I will still have to wait about 2 years to get its flowers, but it is on.

My pregnant onion will get flowers, it has also a lot of babies, for the moment I let them grow attached to the bulb without doing anything.

I also bought some Anona and tried to sow it. So far nothing happened and I have a lot of fungi/mold, so I would need to put them into soil. 

Update of the 05th of June

Those two weeks have been quite busy. I received once more new seeds : verbena, 60 seeds of pseudolithos, 100 seeds of talinum caffrum, 100 of schizobasis intricata, 100 of arthrocereus rondonianus, 100 of hildewinteria hybrid, about 20 of gasteria and 20 of aporophyllum Karen. We have had also a lot of rain so I was a bit worried for my Adenium seedlings but they seem fine and I won't water them until they are well dry. 

I also sowed seeds from fruits I bought at the market or found in town.

This is Melococcus bijugatus, it is called guaya where I live. It is a sweet and sour fruit from the family of the lychee or the rambutan. I like them but I think they are astringent so if I eat too many it leaves a weird feeling in the mouth. This year I decided to sow some of them. There weren't many resources about them, but I watch a video on youtube, and the woman had experimented so I decided to follow some things I saw and experiment myself. I took the outer coat of three of them and I put them all on their side, because that is the way they grow (like lychees).

  

This is the seed of Carissa Macrocarpa or Natal plu, it is a small bush from South Africa. It gives flower smelling jasmine and red fruits that are edible. I haven't tried them yet, however I thought I could try to sow some. I let them soak for a night and then sowed them after as little as a week they are sprouting. 

These are the seeds of my babies...... Since I started to be in plant groups on Facebook and ordering seeds from Internet, I have learnt a lot and I have also seen many plants that I dream to get. These were one of them. They are succulents in the family of the Asclepiadaceae, they look like stones and I find them awesome. However the seeds, I had found, were quite pricey. One day I was wandering on Ebay, I found these seller from Thailand he was proposing 30 seeds of pseudolithos (several species) for a reasonable price. So I ordered 60 of them, they arrived quite fast (about a month). I had many doubts about the germination rate also the growing they are supposed to be quite hard, like other stapeliads. But I did what I usually do with Asclepiadaceae. First I soak them overnight, none had germinated during the night. Then I put some directly onto some soil and other onto a damp paper towel. But as with Adenium seeds, I have better result with the paper towel, so I took off the seeds from the soil but them onto paper towel and I've had about 45-50 germinating. Of course some will die, but I think that at the moment at least 30 came out so at least 50% of germination rate. This is awesome, I can't wait to see them grow.. 

This little pseudolithos were born without roots, but it is actually growing a side root at the moment, not as fragile as I thought. 

Another plant I love : Pachypodium. I have tried 3-4 times to grow Pachypodium but without any success. They were actually growing mold, fungi pretty fast and then dying. This time the seeds of pachypodium saundersii were showing the same kind of problem, but three of them decided to sprout. I am so happy :) :) 

Aloe variegata, I soaked them and then put them onto soil and they finally began to sprout after they got soaked with more than 1 cm of water. But I kind of dried them and I have counted 5 at the moment.

My two adult lithops. I bought them when I was in Mexico City to try to grow some because I find them awesome. I was actually thinking that I would kill them quickly but it appears that no. I thought I had killed one because it was beginning to wrinkle, but it appeared it was just thirsty. 

  

and here my baby lithops, grown from seeds. 

  

The little cannabis is growing not as fast as it is supposed to but it is still growing. I will have to give it away pretty soon.

These are the seeds of Secamone, I am not exactly sure what a secamone is but what the hell I will find out when it will be growing.

These are my Eureka lemon tree, they were beheaded by an iguana but thankfully they are strong and they are already growing side branches. 

The little submatucana are sprouting 17 out 20-25. Pretty good, I love growing cacti although they are pretty slow grower.

 This is my kitchen when it was raining. I had nothing to protect my plants or not much and there were no ways they would get flooded. 

My arthrocereus rondonianus, not that pretty besides it rained on it. But I have hope that it will recover well and keep growing. 

My schizobasis intricata, they are definitely slow growing but they are there. I think they are waiting for winter time to grow.

   

I found some seeds of Nerium Oleander and I decided to grow them. I soaked them for a night and the interesting thing is that the two leaves come before the roots. It looks like a split root but it is actually the cotyledon. Really interesting, there haven't been that much advance since then and most of them are actually rotting. 

  

This is a fruit called Baina in Mexico, Inga edulis. The coat of the seed is edible and so are the seeds but they were already germinated so we couldn't eat them. I however decided to sow 4 of them.

My begonia is finally recovering, I can spot some leaves forming. I don't know why but it is quite slow to recover and the principal bud died. I just hope it will grow back. 

The first seed of my albuca spiralis sprout. It is just a miracle, it has been quite a long time since I sowed them. Such a long time that I had lost hope, maybe two months, but here it is the first one, I hope that one or two more will sprout.

From the three seeds I took of clivia, only one has survived and the first leaf is actually coming out. It is quite a slow grower compared to others.