I wanted to ask all european salvia growers to try the simple instructions on my webpage:
http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/
I would be pleased to help. I speak english only but I put a "Babelfish Translation" module there that probably would be hilarious to read from. I have loved 'herbs' a LONG time (I'm 50).
My simply made Webpages:
http://members.cox.net/thegarden/index.html
http://members.cox.net/hummertime/index.shtml
http://members.cox.net/theluckyleprechaun/index.html
http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/index.shtml
Welcome to Salvia Community,
very nice and interesting pages!
Thank you.
this is rly nice, you seem to be very experienced.
Yes, really nice!
Hey, that´s very interesting! Maybe i´ll try it, when my Growbox is empty again
Thank you!
Your guide is exactly what I needed for my crossing experiments. If my plants induce flowers I will cross them with another Salvia plant. What do you think, is this possible? Maybe you have literature about this topic?
(sorry for my bad english )
Yes! I know the Grower in Santa Barbara named "Jupe" and He has Racemes (Flower Spikes) on Blosser and HoffmanWasson strains. And MAYBE his Luna will flower, Too.
If he grabs a Flower from Luna & rubs it on a HW or Blossers Stigma he COULD get the Very First "Hybid Strain SEEDS" from those flowers calices when they are 'done'.
Or YOU Could! Yes! I Speak no German but Your English is VERY Good.
If you take the Stamens from ONE Strain of Salvia and Wipe them on the Stigmas of a Different type of Salvia you get Hybrid Salvia Seeds!
They are VERY VERY Rare: but very easy to get if you have more than one strain salvia growing.
All the Wild (Outdoor) Salvia's around the Northern Hemisphere are Starting to put up flower stalks UNLESS too Much Artificial Lights Disturb them at night. Those plants do not bloom: but any plant getting MORE than 12 Hours of Darkness a night WILL be preparing to flower at this time.
This Is Why the Page is Started now. Why should I be the only one to grow good seeds?
They happened wild on Hawaii last year: bees did it and Somebody gathered Seeds from plants 8 feet tall there. (Salvia LIKES Hawaii: it's Tropical!) I find from research and by doing it myself that Salvia EASILY sets seeds: it needs a warm location (around 60? F) so the flowers don't freeze and fall off (45 degrees F maybe). (and 4 weeks ripening time.)
I put the Pictures of EVERYTHING I've done with Salvia (Except using it as an Aphrodisiac) - growing wise - on this Webpage: http://members.cox.net/thegarden/.
(Picture 1) I bring it home from the Nursery.
I brought home 'a square stick' and It's the Mother of ALL the Salvia in my Garden. White Grubs ALMOST killed her but I found out what was happening and bought Nematodes. So I'll get seeds from SOME of my Salvia Trees this year (Maybe in the Hundreds)
So, I wanted YOU to find out How easy it is.
If you set the timers on the Lights so you get 12 1/2 hours of Dark and 11 1/2 hours of light you will in a month see the Starting signs of Flower Spikes forming. in 3 - 4 weeks the flower buds start to open. You keep wiping every day and check for changing Calices with seeds in them in 3 - 4 weeks after then. You put Tiny baggies over the Calyx to protect against loss of seeds. Seeds are VERY Tiny. you can harvest seeds for 2 or 3 months then spring makes them stop it (Or you reverse the lights so they can grow more like it is spring.)
Anyone growing indoors could "Force" her to make LOTS of Flowers TWO Times a Year. You could make Money and improve the Species at the same time.
Fish Head 3: Thank you for Clairifing my Understanding. (Pardon: My English is bad sometimes too.)
In Germany the Bees would do it: But I think it is too cold to grow salvia outside there in the winter. Bee hives are discouraged indoors: they Quickly learn to raid the Fridge. That: or install those flap type bee doors so they can come and go as they needed.
I Don't know if Divinorum will accept pollen of other sages. I Don't know if Other Sages will accept Divinorum Pollen. I Encourage you to try. If you get a New cross sage with Psychotropic Properties you will be very famous. The World will beat a path to your door and I'll be in that rush! I've heard rumors that S. Splendens has Psychotropic properties - try Crossing those two Species!
Bear in mind Salvia D. Pollen is Microscopically small: try to use Other Sage Species that have invisible pollen. If the pollen grains are visible they probably won't fit into the Microscopically small Pollen Channels down the Style in the Pistil of Salvia Divinorum. Likewise I wonder if S. Divinorums' tiny pollen wouldn't 'get lost' in a Larger Pollen Channel and fail to make it to the Ovaries.
The Reason I cannot point him to a Page is that I think he's the first to try.
Very Commendable. I wish him Luck.
In Germany it is very difficult to get salvia divinorum to flower. Its only possible indoors or in a heated greenhouse. Outdoors the Plants begin to flower in the late autumn, when it ist too cold for the plants for producing viable seeds.
I think my Salvia-Plants start to flower at the moment. At their heads (don´t know, wheather it´s the right word) they get strange tentacles (don´t know the right word for it too ^^), which don´t seem to be young leaves. Unfortunaly I don´t have enough time to try to bring them to a right flower.
Yes: your plants are following their Instincts.
You are growing indoors through a Window getting Natural Light, Right?
It is Starting to look like this:
The ends of the Branches look like this, Right:
You have Flower Spikes Forming. In a Month you will have flowers starting out. You do not have to do anything except keep away TOO much Light at Night. If Plant is DARK over 12 hours a Day it will try flowering soon: you do not do anything but watch and Flowers will happen Anyway. When Flowers bloom you wipe flower parts together: then you watch MORE. then in 4 Weeks you get a Present off your Plant and America & Germany celebrates your Good Fortune.
Is this the first year this plant has Flowered? The Flowers smell very sweet. Good to eat after they fall off (The part that holds seeds is still on the Plant).
You will have to play 'Hummingbird and Bee' with your Salvia Plants this Year She will give you a NICE Christmas Present.
I AM Delighted I came at this time to this Forum!
Nothing is Random Chance, Eh?
Last year, I had a few salvia divinorum plants, they began to flower. But it was too cold, so they all died, but only the flowering plants
So I think, that flowering plants need more heat to survive:
Hogie:
Salvia Plants Can't stand Frost.
They are a Tropical Plant.
Yes You DID have flowers last year I SEE.
I AM Sorry they died.
They will live in a Garage or Closet in a Pot if you give them light and Fertilizer.
Keep her from freezing until spring then outside for the Summer!
Best to you.
Carl
PS Salvia Grows Best in a Bigger Pot. Mine likes 15 " to 24 " pots. GOOD Drainage: let Soil dry out on top between waterings. Fertilize weekly Miracle-Gro. Keep from Frost. They will Last MANY Many years.
Wo war das denn? Ist dieser Raum nicht geheizt?
MfG dARK
//edit by hogie:
@dark griffon: please answer in English only
No, this room was not heated, because it was not used. This was the reason, that Salvia could flower, because the necessary dark periods were granted.
Thank You Hogie: Your Forum is very Friendly.
It's OK for the Lights to be on for 5 or 10 Minutes to water or Feed in the Night time. The Cat sets security Lights off All night (it goes out after a minute.). My Plants blooming anyways.
Salvia is a Sound Sleeper. (grins at silly joke)
I Wish you best of Luck.
Carl
Hi Hogie,
Because of "Genetic Crossover" at the Chromosomes in the First stage of (Gamete) Pollen/Seeds formation: even seeds fertilized by their own Flowers pollen are considered to be Genetically Uniqe Individuals, as recessive traits can come through.
More Later I have a Meeting.
Best, Carl
October 16th, 2006.
I've updated My Web Site.
I've got Mr. Daniel Siebert to Agree to SELL the Seeds we grow, any of us, Directly from his Web Site. http://sagewisdom.org .
I've Already got some of my work published on his Web Site: http://sagewisdom.org/hummingbird.html (he asked if he could use this .....)
I've brokered a Distribution Deal to sell the Seeds.
Thank you Guys for your Consideration: I hope a Few of you TRY to get Seeds. Maybe you Could Spread the Word this Page Exists?
Many Blessings on your Salvia Gardens!
Would one of you Kind people use the Bablefish German Flag to translate the english on that page to German? I'd Like a German speaking person to HONESTLY tell me Exactly HOW Bad the Translation really is ...
Perhaps you know of a Better translation service I could put there Instead?
And If TOO Much of the page meaning is lost then maybe I can Improve the english grammer so it can translate better?
Or Maybe the instructions can still be understood but in fractured German? Just let me know: is the Translation offered by my Page USUABLE?
Many Thanks!
Carl
sorry Sea Mac but thats really bad german^^
Somehow I cought first sight at this thread a bit late but it blows me completely off in a positive way.
So interesting to have an experienced "user" in here.
Will take some closer looks at your pages, that is for sure sure!
Cheers....
Btw, thats the "humming bird" we get to see here.
Wow! They´re way better!!
BTW: Thanks for all these information. It´s important to even share it between the borders of our language
hehe, we try it^^
Hi!
I want to know why my SD doesn't bloom
Informations:
- Natural light (under the roof with large windows)
- not to cold
- no other light influences
- enough minerals in soil
- very big plants
Neid0: I wish you good luck in trying for seeds. If you get flowers you can get seeds. It does not hurt to try .... The Plants in your Signature are Big enough to want to bloom: don't let the room lights keep them up at night or they will never bloom for you. (I hope you have seen the Flowers starting to form by now. My Friend Jupe in Santa Barbara has flowers already.) Speaking of JUPE - Master gardener that he IS: I know you will like looking at his Salvia Divinorum Garden!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18011813@N00/sets/72057594118070116/
HIS Plants are IN the EARTH and Cannot be Moved. They are Liking This a LOT: they have Escaped his Control!!!
Look UP:
Look WAY Up! The Bottoms of Salvia Leaves stare back down at YOU!
Crazy Cheese: the ONLY thing I can think of that prevents Blooming is Light interference at night.
this research paper http://www.sagewisdom.org/valdes87.html
Shows they forced short (Less than 0.5 Meter tall) plants to bloom just by making sure they only got 11 Hours of light. (My Experience is that WHENEVER the Dark period is longer than the light period she blooms.)
I have had a few other people ask me this. I have a Plan .....
Put your Plant away in a DARK Place like a Cupboard or Pantry or Broom Closet or Garage or Clothes Locker - Some place where temprature is no less than 40 degrees F. and it is entirely LIGHT Proof. Put it away at the same time every day no matter if it is Still Light outside and bring it out of its overnight 'sleeping mask' at the same time every day (Close to Dawn) so the plant can ONLY see light for 11 1/2 hours a day.
In a Couple of months you will see the signs of flower stalks preparing.
I have found it does not take very much man made light to upset them. Just looking at a Streetlight through the windows may keep them awake.
House lights are OK if only used for 2 Minutes at a Time not too many times a Night. Indoors can get a lot of light leakage from family areas: this is why Putting your plant in a DARK Closet is such a Genius Idea. Make SURE there is no light under closet door or around edges. It's OK to open closet to get shawl or Jacket and then turn off light and Close closet - that takes a minute.
And even if your plant grows slowly and it may take months to fully flower: as LONG as you are putting it Somewhere WARM and DARK 12 1/2 Hours a Day EACH DAY you TRICK the Plant to think it is Fall again (Still / Forever) and it will STAY Blooming all year around even in Summer! You will just Bring it in the same time as in the FALL (even lose an hour or two of growing time in the Summer) and it thinks it's in eternal winter.
If you see NO CHANGE in your plant within a Couple of Months you must "Reset" it by making it think summer is back. You put a light near it and give it a Couple EXTRA Hours of Light After your local sunset (In the living area is bright enough to keep it up late at night.) for about 6 weeks and let it have a "Summertime". Then you suddenly one day just start up with Solitaire Confinement in the afternoons again and blooming will be triggered.
I think you ARE Keeping your plant up late with outside Light from SOMEWHERE. It just isn't dark enough - that's the ONLY reason I know of that Salvia doesn't bloom in the Fall ....
If it's Cycle is still in 'Summertime & Growing' put it in a DARKENED Closet for two months at night WITHOUT Fail (You can only MISS one day ...) to make it feel like fall is here: it follows it's instincts and Flowers then.
Good Growing,
Carl McCall
If it is Dark enough (that you could trip over the plant not seeing it) already then it is a Mystery I do not know the Answer to.
Hi!
Thanks a lot for the informations! But I'm 100% sure that there are (under the roof) no other light influences. Just daylight! There are no streetlamps (window side is to the garden)... mhh but today i found this at one plant:
http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=knospecd4.jpg
Is this a small bud?
yeah,CC!!!
thats very cool!!!
i hope my salvia will be blooming that way!!!
(next year^^)
peace
neid0
This evening I was astonished, to see many plants they begin to flower. But under natural conditions it will be too cold for the plants during the next months to get viable seeds. There is the problem: Salvia plants only flower in unused rooms (because of the light cycle).
Today I looked out the Window and ONE of my Plants snuck 2 Flowers out of a Short Raceme. Surprise! They want to Bloom NOW! I thought not for another week at least.
I ran outside with my Camera. The Early Flowers are not ripe looking - they are small and the Calyx is still yellow green: not Purple yet.
Hogie: I'd like to see those flowers. If you Pollinate today you may get seeds in 24 days! Too soon for frost to kill them (3 weeks to ripen - If you start now you'll get a Few seeds from frost dead plants in a month.)
You can put an Electric Blanket around the pot to keep it from freezing and the Plant Dying before you get seeds from them. Even if your Plant dies you'll have seeds to grow new one with ....
I saw your pictures from last year: you COULD get some seeds if you try it this year. It won't cost you anything to try but a Few Extra Minutes a Day. I think you will be Successful but we will never know if you don't try.
CrazyCheese: you have a VERY good Chance to get ripe seeds before Chinese new years.
Neid0: you watch the growing ends of your Plants Carefully. You will see something NOT like Leaves coming out in weeks: UNLESS you have Lights Interfering with them at night. The Plants in your Signature will start to bloom before Christmas if all they get is Natural light - They ARE Big enough to Bloom THIS YEAR. I have 3 cuttings that were removed from the Same plant October 4th - 5th and had NO Sign of buds on them that put up Flower Stalks WHILE they were GROWING ROOTS in Mugs of Tap water!!!!! I'll have a 10 inch plant that will be over half Flower Stalk soon! If a Cutting will bloom then YOUR Plants can Too!
CC wanted to know WHY his Plants didn't bloom. Smaller Plants grow more Slowly: My Plants in the Yard are TREES in 20 - 24 inch pots and are Growing very Fast. There will be a Cascade of Flowers on Almost a Dozen Plants out there soon. HIS were only 3 Weeks behind mine because his are Smaller than Mine: that is all. I calculate any Plant 12 inches or taller that IS starting the Process now would be Able to bear fresh seeds before February.
CC: how tall is your plant(s)? Neid0 how big are yours? CC has the start of flower stalks and in a Couple of weeks may have a Surprise on his plants. After the Most of the Flower stem starts off (3 - 4 new flowers each day) blooming heavy you MAY AS WELL do the Extra Step of Pollinating while you have them. And then two weeks later when you see the seeds starting to ripen you'll do a Happy dance that you gave it a TRY. It is Fun to watch the Plant follow it's Instincts and it's genetic programming and More Fun to get ripe seeds. The Flowers smell like honeysuckle and taste like apples. Eat a freshly fallen one after you pollinate with it ..... YUM.
Carl
Hi!
Today i inspected my plants.... i saw many new Buds! Now there are approx. 8 buds on different plants small buds, but there are buds!My biggest plant is approx. 1,80m:
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00009zt8.jpg
but this one was not the first which starts to bloom. The first blooming plant is about 1,30m (twisted growing), this one:
http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00011fv6.jpg
http://img334.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00010hm1.jpg
The smallest plant which is blooming is about 60cm. Maybe the others will start to, we'll see:
http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00008yu7.jpg
So long!
Regards!
mh, about 7 inches
Wow CC!
I looked at your Pictures I AM Very Impressed.
You have the Biggest Salvia Divinorum Garden in Germany (That I know of).
You WILL Get seeds from those Plants if you Pollinate: Plants that Big I call Salvia TREES. You are VERY Fortunate!
Neid0: do streetlights get through the windows and Keep your Plants awake at night? I see your Garden looks out over the Street (YOU have a Nice garden TOO).
Your Plants ARE Big enough to want to bloom if they ONLY get Natural Light. You'll know in a Month because your plants grow slower that CCs do. If Light is getting at them at night they won't bloom.
CC: I'm all excited for you. I was thrilled last year when I tried and my Plant gave me seeds. They say I'm the First in America to grow them outdoors. But ANYONE growing indoors can get seeds when their plants bloom: you will see how easy it is for yourself.
Then YOU will be a Famous Expert too!
I Am very glad for you and Hogie: I wish you both to try and get seeds.
Your Friend, Carl McCall
there is no light! at night, a put the savia at a nother place
Neid0: then your Plants will flower.
I know EVEN the Short Plants want to Bloom. When I cut this Branch off of the Plant on October 5th there was no Flowering AT ALL on it: it was JUST a Branch I put in a mug of water outside!
See the roots? This was in Water 34 days and grew a Flower Stalk while it was growing roots! It was determined to Flower and it DIDN'T even have roots! Growing a Flower stalk was AS IMPORTANT as growing ROOTS to this Cutting.
Edited: (I Named this plant "Quarm" and it's growing bigger outside in a pot of dirt right now: but I think it has since changed it's mind about flowering.)
ALL you need are Plants / DARKNESS (Put in Closet at night) / and Time (Patience) and you will get Flowers.
Keep watching the ends of your Branches. Soon you should see flower signs.
Hey Mac,
Congratulation, they're awesome! How old are the plants now?
Hi CC!
The big Plant in front of me was just a little stick I cut from my FIRST Salvia Plant on April 4th, 2005 at 1825 my time. I cut 3 Sticks that day - It was the First day I kept good records for my cuttings, too! All 3 sticks were put in separate glass mugs of tap water and left outside.
It was Later Potted in Dirt on April 24th 2005 at 1710.
So, as of the Date of that Photograph, December 22nd 2006 the Large plant in front of me was either 627 days old (If you count from when it was Removed from its mother plant) or 607 days old (If you only count from when it got put in dirt).
As of today, December 24th 2006 It has been growing in dirt outside in my yard non-stop for Exactly 20 Months. It has been an Independent plant for 629 days now.
The 2 other BIG plants were sometime in 2005: The one behind me was born on July 5th 2005 at about 1115, and the other big one was born on April 10th 2005 at about 1725. The two on the far end were born on February 4th 2006 this year.
I have names for the 4 BIG Plants in the Picture. I AM in Love with my Plants and Talk to them out loud all the time.
So: I'm Crazy. I can't help it. I HAD my Pills this morning ....
Tell us the names
Merry Christmas from:
(left to right) Henry, Carl, Calvin, Dean, Jean (It WAS "J7" but it got Named this morning), and Jack.
Hi Also from (Not Shown):
Rory, Edgar, Isabel, Iggy, Kate, Kathy, Jacque, Jules, Caleb, Quarm and a few more with just Series Designators on their pots that haven't taken names yet ....
You know: you can see my 'baby pictures' of Calvin & Dean over a year ago as 'just little sticks' (on the wall in 8" green pots: from Picture #13 onward), on my Garden Page -
http://members.cox.net/thegarden along with Pictures of Some of the Ones named above but not shown ....
Carl
PS Carl is the one with LEGS ....
Well, My Garden is not as Happy as it was Last year but my Friend JUPE in Santa Barbara has done it TOO, Now!
Would you PLEASE Join me in Celebrating the Magnificent Achievement of JUPE this Year?
As it says on my Research Web Page http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/ :
You would like to see this picture of a salvia divinorum tree growing in a big flower pot in my Backyard.
That photograph was taken April 4th. It is in the biggest flower pot I can find. (24" across/deep).
I need a ladder to work on the tree top now.
That tree is 2 years old.
Congratulations. Your plants are amazing.
I have never see such a giant Salvia Plant.
Woooooow this tree is really breathtaking
I think you don't have one green thumb...You have whole green hands
Holy wishes for your plants and you
the plants benefited from the love you give them...
i hope, my babysalvia feels all right in the conditions, that i can give her...
how many hours pro day should i give her direkt sunlight?
most people say salvia don't need more than 2 or 3 hours direkt sunlight for best growingresults. what are your experiences?
did this plant, that you posted here, arised in the shadow???
greetings
Salvia divinorum is a Tropical rain forest plant. Here in San Diego, California even one hour of direct sunlight a day does long term damage to the plant. In Mexico the natives plant Salvia under their Coffee Trees. Shade most of the day is what Salvia wants.
In Germany an Hour or two of sun may be OK, per day.
I took new pictures of SOME of my Plants today. ALL the Plants on the North side of my house are not in this Picture. Here is me peeking through my Biggest Plant:
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Here the Baby plant I hold has some of its leaves larger than my hands:
I wish you all happy growing ...
seriously, your plants are amazing... i always chop my plants into smaller ones or rip off all the leaves before they even get around 3 oder 4 feet tall
I think the biggest problem is that all the big and bushy plants i have get infected by pests like aphids and stuff and i can't kill em all when they have so many places to hide...
i keep em short and simple
I love your plants. I'd call that a bloody Salvia tree^^.
At the moment I've got two of my plants outdoors
the whole day and one indoors. They are all grwoing great
(but they are baby plants yet and compared to yours they
are ridiculous.
New Pictures:
Note some leaves are football sized!
Carl http://sageseeds.info/tutorials
One question:
Do you smoke the leaves?
Or are you just growing.
(Meine Fresse ist mein Englisch schlecht^^)
FG
Their strongest ones... if i understand in the right way, is ist a extract with 160mg per gram leafes? the one for $52.99 - $96.99? isn't that kind of kind of really strong?
Hi Mac. I see that you have found the size Button. I`m so happy to see your Posts in the way that is characteristical for you.
----To write in Blue use the -farbe Button, that means color. ----
Whoa!!! This is the first time I'm having a look at this international thread of SALVIA-COMMUNITY.net, but I never would have dreamed of all this amazing information Sea Mac has provided us with. Thank you very much!
So far I haven't yet had a look at all those sites you mentioned above, Sea Mac, but I can assure you I will as soon as possible. I never thought it might be possible to get seeds from a salvia divinorum plant at all - let alone easily, as you seem to be suggesting.
Unfortunately, as some of us have told you already, strains other than Wasson-Hofmann are almost impossible to obtain here in Europe. It might be possible to find very few proud owners of Blosser-clones, but that might be all we could ever have to offer to add to the genetic pool of the Wasson-Hofmann.
Those salvia-trees of yours are truely amazing. I never thought something like that existed anywhere in the world. I understand you live in a climate without frost in winter? Lucky you!
Do not worry too much about that language barrier, because most Germans speak English anyway. (Well - more or less, as you must have found out already...)
Besides, I used to be an English teacher and I am glad to offer my humble services in any cases of severe communicative difficulties, so do not hesitate to contact me. (It may take me a while to reply sometimes though, but sooner or later I always will.)
I must admit I am very interested in obtaining some of those seeds they are offering on that website, but I suppose it might be difficult to figure out working and affordable shipping and payment conditions for us here in Germany? (We tend to pay for things by bank transfer or cash; credit cards are rather uncommon here, you know?)
Well, I just came across this thread because I wasn't able to sleep this night, but now it is a quarter past four here in Germany and I am definitely going to bed now.
So bye for now and best wishes,
Surak
I still ask myself why you don't make extracts yourself ... just solving some extracted black wax (or even cleaning it further) into grain alcohol to produce a tincture for example. There are a few guys on this board making their extracts without too much effort ... with the fantastic growth of your plants you wouldn't even need to pick anything off them but the leaves they drop anyway, and you'd still be left with (very) much more than you need.
I'm glad to hear that you and your Salvias are not endangered by the fires raging near you right now
Glass
btw. your plants are just amazing, I don't know how many hours I spent sitting in front of your pictures
You must have a very green thumb when you can hear your Plants coughing.
Good to read that you (and the others) are ok. These Fires seems to be a giant
catastrophe. And now George B promised unbureaucratic assistance.
Remember Katrina.
My Grow your Seeds web page got updated: you can even subscribe to updates!
I haven't hand pollinated yet. These birds are busy doing it for me:
And I saw the results starting up the other day:
Looks like the hummingbird got Isabel 'knocked up' with just his tongue ...
If you guys have flowers now: you can HAND Pollinate them. Salvia sets seeds!
http://www.sagewisdom.org/valdes87.html See? Even HE got some (in the greenhouse)!
http://sageseeds.info/seeds2007/20071115hummingbird.jpg Is Too big to post ...
I Haven't hand pollinated any flowers this year.
The Anna's Hummingbird has been doing it regularly FOR Me.
Right after the flower falls out you will notice little green specks in the Calyx.
A couple of weeks later, if the seeds are ripening, you'll see this:
Look Closely:
A RARE Photograph of 'green' Salvia Seeds ripening in the Calyx ...
NOW You know what to look for on the plant.
Happy Gardening ...
Very nice pictures!
Wow, respect!
Thank you for these pics, they ARE rare. I've never seen something like this before...
Good luck...
mfg
Tea For One
CURSE YOU!!!
No, it's just great, I adore your plants since I saw these pictures for the first time. Mine are growing about 1cm a month at best right now, german fall and winter don't seem to offer the best lighting conditions ^^
I'd just love to have your «Pollinators». Your pictures make me yearn for them, with no chance for them ever to come by, hehe ... I guess i have to keep watching the lady bugs plague in my appartment, it has some entertainment value as well
Glass
I updated my guide with some really good close-ups of Pollination today.
Below are just thumbnails: if you click on the link below each one you see the (half size scaled) closer look.
http://sageseeds.info/seeds2007/20071202pollinateh.jpg
http://sageseeds.info/seeds2007/20071202pollinatingh.jpg
Of course you could always subscribe to updates on my site:
http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/
I'm going out to the garden to get more photos now.
PS I also make web pages ... http://softwaresanta.com
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While I was out Pollinating this afternoon that Hummingbird I named flew right up to me!
http://sageseeds.info/seeds2007/20071215floverc.jpg
Twice today this same bird has flown right in front of me and looked me over!
http://sageseeds.info/seeds2007/20071215hummingbirdc.jpg
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