jeffreyp

From my understanding, timing of blooms has alot to do with seed availability. When a basjoo flowers, you have incomplete female blossoms, and after the last hand appears the flower produce incomplete male flowers. For example if you had one basjoo starting to bloom and another that has already bloomed but is now only producing male flowers you could take the pollen from the latter and dab it on the pistols of the former and then get seeds. Velutina produces complete flowers from the get go and in turn the fruits are very seedy.