Carraig,
You have a great selection of fruiting plant seeds from Africa. I just put in another order . Thank you for making these seeds available at affordable prices. BTW you have C. neglecta plants for sale?
I really wish you forumites would remind me who you are when you place your orders so that I can send extra seeds or give discounts :-).
C. neglecta are a PAIN to germinate. I haven't found the exact trigger yet so there is a huge variance in germination times. One of my seedlings was actually from a germination trial I gave up on. The baggie sat off to the side of my computer waiting for data entry for a couple weeks because I was being lazy, and when I went to record the germination results from that trial I found a seedling. These seeds get ugly quick, and yet still germinate...
I want to grow my C. neglecta seedlings for a while. I may eventually sell some, but I am enjoying the fruits of my labor right now :-). Kind of like the African Blueberry (V. exul) that I JUST discovered the trigger for after months of spotty and mostly failed germination tests. (It's a treatment of 1000ppm GA3 stored in the dark at room temperature for 7 weeks.) Seeds that germinate easily are much easier to part with :-)
Another funny one is Chrysanthemoides monilifera (Beitou / Edible Daisy). They are a weed in some countries, and yet I have only been able to germinate them with any reliability using GA3.
Anyway, let me know next time you order before you pay so that I can take care of you.
Regards,
Carraig