I had a surprise today... with my Grass Trees!

Approx 2 months back, when I was replanting a few yogurt pots after some seedlings died. I spilled a few seeds. I thought I had picked them all up. The next day when I watered the seedling I found a seed lying on the top of a pot, and because I was lazy I just planted it over there in the garden...Today I found it, the little seed has come up! it's pretty cute!

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Also today another emerged, actually it was yesterday but I didn't notice until today!

It was planted on the 26/4/08 and emerged 12/6/08... 48 days,.

Quite a bit longer compared the seeds germinating in the summer months.

The new plant is on the left in the photo below.

The plant on my doubtful list carked it yesterday.Below on the right.
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The seedling below is quite small (center pot on the right) I'm hoping it will survive. I have had a few seedling like this that have picked up with a little TLC. Some seedlings seem to have very fine leaves/spines.

Tally 1 death, 2 new... 92 +7=99 (yikes 99!)
Now do I add the little one in the garden to the seedling or to the garden?

Cheers Carol

My Neighbour is Flowering!

Look there are tiny flowers on the spear!

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I first noticed this plant around the 3/4/08 so it has taken

approx. 5weeks to reach this stage.

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The plantlets or seeds growing around the base of this

Grass Tree No.7 are growing nicely.

An area in the garden is being prepared and this plant should go in there in about 3 weeks.

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I thought this little plant (below) would die,I just touched the green top lightly and it broke off at earth level in the pot...

I suspect it had root rot or something like that!
this meant I'm was back to 86 seedlings...

But two more came up yesterday so now I have 88 seedlings

...not counting the ones around the pot above because I didn't actually propagate them!

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Tally 95

88 seedlings+7= 95

Cheers

A few Fatalities

While I was away I had a few little plants fail to thrive, 4 died.

You can see (or maybe not! photo didn't upload as I'd hoped) the difference in the tiny plant in the center compared to the others

One of the 4 ... not doing too well!
Here are 3 of the little bodies ... mostly they were brown, maybe they

had too much water or maybe not enough...who knows!
or they were just little dud seeds...

However my total is still 83,
76 singles
6 pots now have 2 seeds in them and one has 3...
I have planted the 4 pots (previously deceased) with new seeds.
I expect 2 more fatalities as the seedlings are looking a trifle midgety.
Cheers

Plant Fatality

This little plant came up with the seed pod stuck on the top,

consequently the plant failed to thrive, it didn't grow much bigger than you see in this photo.

After about 10 days and no more growth in the plant, the seed pod fell off, then the little plant went brown and died. I had continued to water the plant...but it died!

After the plant died I dug it out of the yogurt container and examined the remains of plant... (a plantautopsy...) I drew a line on the plastic lid to show how long the little tap root was. A really amazing length considering the size of the plant.
I buried the tiny plant in the garden...

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This is a photo of GT. No.2

The seed spear when it reached full height and before the flowers started to develop on what will become the seed pod.

Good news though! 69 baby plants now ...two more peeped out today!