HARVESTING ECHEVERIA SEED 🌱

[@sejhammer]

So helpful! Your plants look gorgeous btw!! I know this is a necro comment but this video particularly helped me with my seed harvesting learning

[@aliciatafoya6638]

Great video, thanks for showing me how to collect the seeds. Having a greenhouse while its raining is a bonus. I'm enjoying mine because I can work on my plants in winter

[@mickssucculents]

Your very welcome 🙂👍 yes having the greenhouse definitely has its advantages of keeping seed pods and seed dry 😊

[@julieneilson7302]

Another great clip! Thanks

[@mickssucculents]

Your welcome! :)

[@Trout_Man_Dan]

Great video Mick, I always love all the great tips you give! I’m based in the US and I’ve been starting to make my own crosses.

[@mickssucculents]

Thanks Daniel 😀🙏 it's quite fun trying to create your own hybrids. We are just about to throw down some seed that we collected and hoping for some cool looking plants in the near future 😁 Good luck mate, hope you get lots of great success 😀👍

[@kaktusboer8395]

Thank you for the videos on growing Echeveria from seed Mick. Thanks to them being so informative I managed to germinate my first seedlings recently, right here in South Africa. I love your content and you are doing a great job, keep at it!

[@mickssucculents]

Cheers mate! :) Glad to hear you enjoy our content. Where abouts in SA you from? I grew up in Cape Town and also in Durbanville, just outside of the city before we moved back to Australia :)

[@kaktusboer8395]

@@mickssucculents Oh wow that's so nice to hear! I am not as lucky to be near Cape Town, I'm situated in Witbank about an hours drive from Johannesburg. Man knowing you are South African makes me super proud! It's so nice to see the future you are building over there for your family. Keep it up! Love the videos😁🌵

[@ericadurda9027]

I have an indoor echeveria that has flowered every spring. Is it possible for it to produce viable seeds without pollination?? There are seeds in the dried stalks I have.

[@LuckystrikeGFXer]

Are the seeds only viable if they do the "open up in a star shape" thing? I have pollinated some of the echeverias that were flowering but I havent noticed the star shape on the drying flowers.

[@mickssucculents]

If they do the star thing, then it means they are pollinated. If you haven't noticed the star shape on the flowers you have tried pollinating, then it probably hasn't worked. That can happen sometimes.

[@annielau2279]

@@mickssucculents if the flower is closed does that mean it hasn’t been pollinated? I have hummingbirds that do the pollination.

[@Akashasoon]

Can you cut the actual flower stems prior to it opening and releasing the seeds? Or does it has to be attached to the plant to be able to get the seeds?

[@mickssucculents]

I always leave the flower stems on until I have collected the pods with seed. I have never tried removing the flower stems and see if the seed still matures. I'm guessing it may not do so well, as it can't get any nutrients, energy and water from the main plant when removed. I would just let them be :)

[@marikamoraleda3286]

Thanks is planting

[@mickssucculents]

Your welcome! :)

[@georgeschannel6168]

That was silly to record a video in a plastic greenhouse during rain.

[@mickssucculents]

It may have been, but we needed to do a video asap around that time to collect the seed from the pods before they were all lost on the ground 👍