Spring Bobeja (Gethyllis linearis) sowing diary

I just harvested the seeds of the Gethyllis linearis spring bobeja, so I sowed them right away. The weather today is good.

This time I used a small pot for sowing.

Filled it more than half full with soil mixed by Kite himself, then poured in carbofuran and carbendazim.

After mixing well, poured on a layer of Fafard peat.

The Gethyllis linearis seeds matured naturally; it took about 4 months from flowering to harvest. Today I had nothing to do, so I took off the seed pods, washed them with water, and let them dry. I found that the Gethyllis linearis seeds are soft, and inside the seeds there is still a small green dot. So I cut one seed open and observed it with a 50x microscope. Because it does not have video or photo capability, I could not save any images. After cutting it open, the inside of the seed was soft translucent tissue, and the green thing was actually the sprout. At 500x magnification, the translucent tissue was like onion tissue, full of transparent liquid, and the liquid was separated by tiny membranes one by one. I had never harvested soft-bodied seeds before, so I decided to sow them right away that afternoon, and also reserved a few seeds to sow later and see what difference there is in germination.

The fresh seeds were dried and sown directly on the peat by dibbling, because there were not many seeds and the pot was large, so I casually sowed a few seeds of Tang fan as well, then covered them with vermiculite.

Bottom-watered to let the seedling pot soak thoroughly, then placed it in a seedling box and put it in a spot with scattered light, waiting for germination.

After 10 days they began to grow roots; the green part below is the root.

The 5 seeds I had reserved at the time were placed in a seed bottle, and Kite specially dripped a few drops of water into the seed bottle, then put the lid on the seed bottle. After 10 days they also began to develop roots.

After rooting, the seeds were carefully separated and planted in nutrient soil. The fine roots had many tiny hairs, which are fibrous roots. It actually grows roots first and then leaves.

Half a month passed, and the faster-growing ones had already produced cotyledons.

It is almost half a year and they are still very small. With the higher temperature, the leaves also look a little ready to turn yellow, which means the dormancy period is almost here.