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Originally Posted by blownz281
Pics? How hard are they to grow from seed.
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Oops haha, I cut all the flowers off except one pod. Here is a pic of the mother last year with flowers, I collected a ton of seed. It grew from a small TC plant in spring, to this size by mid summer. I had unthinkingly planted it under a hickory, and it started looking like Swiss cheese so I had to dig it, and put it in a tub mid season, the tub is wider than a persons shoulders. They germinate in about 2 weeks for me, I soak them overnight, and put them in a tray of soil, let them grow to about an inch tall then separate. Do NOT squish the seed pods with your fingers, or you will get thousands of tiny crystals in your fingertips that burn like crazy. They grow slowly over winter under grow lights from seed, but once it gets warm outside, they grow like crazy. I gave all of them away this spring that I had started from seed from this plant, as I found 6 bulblets around the mother bulb/tuber, and there are 3 new ones coming up so far around her this summer. She is not nearly that large this year, it seems like once they develop flowers, they never get that large again, and they produce a lot of flowers. I am hoping the flower removal will give them a boost.
