Here are some plant propagation I've done in the last 3 months.
In Mexico, Adenium have become a mode, lots of people have one and want one. The fact is that they are easy to cultivate in the climate we have and they offer many many flowers throughout the year. Furthermore they come in many different colours. So I decided to grow my own and sell them when they will be ready. So I ordered seeds from Thailand (100 seeds). Once I received them, I soaked them for a day and I put 50 seeds directly into soil and 50 on damp paper so I could monitor the sprouting. After only one day the first seeds began to sprout. As soon as they would sprout, I would put them into soil.
Below and above my two weeks old seedlings.
Here are some agave stricta and gasteria. I bought 25 seeds of agave stricta and 25 seeds of gasteria seeds. I have 3 agaves and 6 gasteria. I'm only a beginner at germinating, so I'm happy enough.
below and above are echinopsis (subdenudata y kermesina)
below are some epiphyllum seedlings
In the middle of the roads, it is sometimes common to see plumeria and one day I was going back home, I realised that one had fruits. So I've been checking on the fruits to be able to get its seeds. One opened and I took the seeds and plant them. Plumeria seeds should be planted half into the soil with the papery thing outside like in my picture.
After about 10 days of nothing is happening, I checked them yesterday and here we are, in the second picture below, we can see a small root coming out of the seed. They are all sprouting, now I only have to wait to see the leaves coming out.
This is a gardenia cutting I've made. I have to be honest, I've tried twice to grow a gardenia and they died both times. However after my first attempt, I decided that I would try making cuttings if I were ever to grow a new one. After a year or two I bought a new gardenia and took some cuttings, I put them into water until they rooted (about 1-2 months) and then I put them into soil. This one is the only one still growing, the mother plant is actually also dead. It look quite healthy and it is growing so let see what will happen with it.
These are seedlings of Sauromatum venosum or voodoo lily. I bought some seeds on Ebay and I was surprised to see that out 10 seeds 9 germinated. Sadly one came up yellow (as in the first picture) so it died and one didn't come up well either so it died too. I'm left with 7 seedlings quite healthy as you can see in the 2nd picture.
One thing is sure, some bulbs don't give you many offsets. So after doing some research online I began to propagate bulbs by twin scaling. Basically I cut them in 4 or 6 or 8 and I put the pieces into soil and wait. I tried this on some bulbs of zephyranthes grandiflora, it worked pretty well, so I decided to try on a sprekelia bulbs when I received the bulbs I had ordered.
After a few weeks, from 5 pieces left, about 8 new bulbs are forming, and it might not be over. I have to wait some times more.
When I went to Merida, I found these seeds of Thevetia peruviana and I decided to take some home. I soaked them for 24 hours and I put them into soil. They sprouted after about 10 days. Most of them have two roots because they are polyembrionic, it means that one seed can give more than one embryo (more than one plant).
After another 15 days, most of them must be sprouted by now and I count 13 plants, which means that most of the 7 seeds gave me 2 seedlings.
Here are some tigridia, from 100 seeds I must have only about 25-30 seedlings growing. They took about 1 month to germinate, I sowed some on top of the soil and some about 1/4 of inch deep into the soil and both germinated, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
These are Trichocaulon annulatum. I soaked the seeds for a night and some had already germinated. From 10 seeds, only 3 germinated as you can see on the second picture, but they seem to do well.
