Beautiful coloured seed pod! How great is nature to show when the seeds are ripe they change colour! Lovely video which show us all the steps needed for harvesting seeds! Like the idea of the folded paper to pour seeds into bag! Lots of love Lyn and Hans! May you both have an amazing afternoon!

@desertplantsofavalon

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love to see the seed pods ripen on Schlumbergera fruits Sylvia :-D it really is so exciting, and Nature truly is so amazing, I will be keeping seeds from my plants to send to you when I harvest them in a few weeks, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a magnificent afternoon XXXXX

@falzonp1

2 жыл бұрын

@@desertplantsofavalon Thank you so much Lyn! I am not in a hurry, it is still long way until Spring!

Thats funny that you just posted this. I just finished filming my self crossing pollinating Schlumbergera truncata to Schlumbergera Buckleyi!!!

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

haha! thats perfect timing indeed :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

Lyn - I really like how you take a theme and carry it through...allowing us to see each step. Its also very reassuring when you include your timelines...I probably wouldn't have been so patient to wait, but your example will help me do that!

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million Larry for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you tons of love and happiness for a fantastic day XXXXXX

Look forward to seeing them sowed later in the year. Have a great day!!

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Mick for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to Newark for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

Thanks Lyn, I am harvesting many cacti seeds too. So easy to sprout! Thanks, Keith in AZ

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Keith for your fantastic comment :-) its so wonderful to get harvesting the seeds and to grow these incredible plants from seed watching them grow from scratch :-) thanks a million for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending both you and ADORABLE Beautrice 5,000 heaps of love and tons of Cactus Power and GROOVINESS from right across the Emerald Isle to Arizona and have a magical Friday XXXXX

Oh my gosh! I had no idea that it took so long for the fruit to form on these plants. It would be lovely to see them grow.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

I enjoyed the video and look forward to seeing you plant them and watching them grow. 😄

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Cheryl for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

That is really nice you have booms and seeds. In the past, I have never had a bloom.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

Thanks for sharing your expertise on harvesting cactus seeds with us. Thought I would let you know that when I started this video, Tawnya was in the other room. She heard your music and said, "Hi guys" :)

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

haha Jim :-)))))))) thats so wonderful that Tawnya says Hi Guys haha ! :-)))))) Give Tawnya a HUGE HUG from me :-) thanks so much Jim for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you and Tawnya an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX

@MidwestGardener

7 жыл бұрын

Desert Plants of Avalon Will do :)

Amazing!

@desertplantsofavalon

4 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Jane for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday XXXX

Great stuff. Thank you, Lyn.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million Rachel for your fantastic comment :-) I am so happy to get seeds from this Christmas cactus and took over a year for the seed pod to fully ripen but so happy i waited, its going to be such fun to grow these seeds in the spring :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of PLANT POWER from Waterford to Wexford and have a BRILLIANT weekend ahead XXXXXXX

This was very helpful! Wow, you need to wait a year to get the seeds. That is a lots of time. I like how the fruit looks like and how you store your seeds. I am looking forward to see you sow the seeds.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Adrienn for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

Very clear information ;)

@desertplantsofavalon

Жыл бұрын

So happy you loved the information Patty, and thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support XXXX

Cool thanks for letting me know

@desertplantsofavalon

6 жыл бұрын

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching Luke and sending tons of love and heaps of PLANT POWERED happiness from Ireland for a fantastic day XXXXX

Great tutorial Lyn! Sending Love & Hugs! :) ♥♥♥

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Kaitlyn for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you a MASSIVE hug and an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday ahead Sis XXXXX

@kaitlynjacques8087

7 жыл бұрын

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With your HUGE KZread presence, much more than mine, you are OFFICIALLY entered in the AZ Saguaro seed growing contest competition. 5 different countries are included, including with YOU, the green seas of Ireland. All are without a heating pad, just placed outside or in a South facing window. See the video from FiFi FiFi. Please post a video of you sowing about 50 seeds soon. Thanks, Keith in Arizona

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million Keith for your fantastic comment and YES I will definitely make a video in the next few days sowing these Saguaro seeds :-) I haven't had a minute free to bless myself these past few days as I have been so busy getting things sorted out with the house here :-) but will definitely make a seed sowing video in the next few days so stay tuned haha :-) and thanks a billion for the amazing Saguaro seeds its going to be such fun growing them :-) sending you and ADORABLE Beautrice 5,000 heaps of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to Arizona for a brilliant GROOVY FILLED afternoon XXXXX

So ive had my two different colored thanksgiving cati about a year now and had them rub butts when they bloomed. And today i went to water and a pot dropped off. I did as you said the pod is green though. What do i do now if i want to plant them.

Good video Lyn. Best wishes. :-)

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Chadde for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you and Tammy and Lobo, Kurgan, Oscar and the Yorkies an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to beautiful Minnesota for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

Thank you ! Such lovely fruit I've had on my Thanksgiving cactus. Wondered what the fruit was & what to do with them.

@desertplantsofavalon

Жыл бұрын

Thats fantastic news you have got seeds, Good luck with growing from seed and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

Ola Lyn, que lindas sementinhas 👏👏👏👏😘😘😘

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Agradece tanto Fran para seu comentário maravilhoso e para prestar atenção e emitir-lhe e Carlotta uma abundância do amor e da felicidade do direito através do Emerald Isle para uma sexta-feira brilhante XXXXX

Yay! Lovely Schlumbergera! Waiting for all that cute baby plants ^w^ What bloom colors were the parents?

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) the parents were red and pink and it will be wonderful to see what the colours of the blooms will be when the seeds grow into mature plants :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant day today XXXX

wow thats awesome i do remember u pollinating that! i wonder how long it will take to form sprouts?

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Elisabeth for your fantastic comment :-) I am so looking forward to get sowing and growing these seeds and it will be interesting to see how long it will take for them to germinate :-) thanks so much for watching and sending an abundance of love and happy growing from Ireland XXXXX

Thanks... you are so awesome! 💙💛💜 This video answered my question about how long to wait for harvest time. I had no idea the pod would turn to that pretty Fuschia-like color similar to prickly pears. I was successful pollinating 2 blooms between Christmas 2017 and the 1st week of January. I have a long time to wait but probably many years to actually see any cacti from this process, huh? How long does it take the seeds to grow into a cactus after you plant them? Can they be planted any season?

@desertplantsofavalon

6 жыл бұрын

So happy you saw this vid as it goes more info on how to harvest the fruits, it can take about 6 months for the young seedlings to resemble cacti and it can take a few days to 2 months for the seeds to germinate, you can sow seeds any season but its always best to wait until Spring to sow them as the days are longer and warmer but you can grow seeds any time of year if you have grow lights, here is a video I made on How to grow cacti from seed and this works really well with Christmas and Easter cacti too :-D kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX5kp5tqo87AiKw.html thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic weekend XXXX

@tammygurl64

6 жыл бұрын

Desert Plants of Avalon. Hi. Omg... I'm so excited! 😀 Of the 2 blooms I pollinated they BOTH started growing fruit and 1 is now very fuchsia-like in color already and the other is dark. Not sure if the dark one will finish turning but I will leave it alone for now. I have not tried to pull the ripe fruit off yet. I'm afraid it might be too soon but I may give it a slight pull next week and see if it will just fall off. I appreciate so much your sharing your video and I'm so happy mine are working out. It only took around 7 months, so not quite as long as it could have been. Btw, do you think it's best to let them fall off naturally or pick them when ripe? Thank you again for sharing your knowledge. Have a blessed day! 😇 ❤💙💚💛

Wondering if there is an up-date on these seeds. I have two developing seed pods on a Schlumbergera Truncata. In the past I haven't really had much interest in leaving them to develop but this time have as I did the pollination crossing a pure white with a white with red fringing. I have grown epiphylum from purchased seed before but not schlumbergera

@desertplantsofavalon

6 жыл бұрын

Well done on having your Schlumbergera's developing a seed pod :-D its going to be amazing to grow these from seeds :-D I haven't sown the seed from these yet but will be sowing them in the coming weeks and its going to be wonderful to see if and ho they germinate :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday ahead XXXX

@tammygurl64

6 жыл бұрын

stev123and. Hi. I'm new to cross pollinating plants myself but I saw your comment about sowing epiphyllum seeds. I actually had to google "epiphyllum" to see what it is. There's a beautiful variety. I'd imagine it takes an eternity to see blossoms from sowing seeds. How long did it take the seeds to grow and did you ever get a flowering plant from it?

@stev123and

6 жыл бұрын

tammygurl64 have three plants that are four years old and yet to flower

Olá, Já semeei mas não tive sucesso com elas , sempre faço propagação com as estaquias .Bjs

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

And with this video all of my research for pollinating, my Thanksgiving tactuses is dun. Actually I got a flower open right now. So even though the goal is to cros, the red with a yellow one to try and get Orange. I think I will just do the 1 yellow flower. I've got to itself just to get some practice.

@desertplantsofavalon

6 ай бұрын

Thats fantastic you will be pollinating the flower on your yellow flowering Thanksgiving cactus and good luck with the pollination, its so exciting to pollinate the flowers and get seeds, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

i have polinated my christmas cactus flowers, by puting loads of pollen on the stigma,but everytime i do it they just shrivel up and fall off. can you tell me what im doing wrong? i water them and everything but they always fall off.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Marius :-) a lot of the hybrids are not self pollinating and I have only ever had any success with cross pollinating the flowers with a different Christmas or Thanksgiving plant that I have flowering at the same time and cross over the pollen, but many of the new hybrids are sterile even when crossed, thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic Friday XXXX

Should I change anything about how I care for my true christmas cactus if pollination is successful, or is it just business as usual?

@desertplantsofavalon

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kyera :-D the good news is you can care for your Christmas Cactus the same way if pollination is a success, good luck with your pollination, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

Is April the best time to sow these?

@desertplantsofavalon

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there :-D yes Spring is the best time to sow seeds, but if you have Grow lights you can sow these seeds in Winter too, but if not its best to wait until the spring before sowing them, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic Sunday XXXX

@calenm5439

3 жыл бұрын

@@desertplantsofavalon thank you! I love your videos!

@desertplantsofavalon

3 жыл бұрын

@@calenm5439 XXXX

Apparently their natural pollinators are hummingbirds so little wonder mine have never developed fruits :-)

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Friday XXXXX

@mostlynature6848

7 жыл бұрын

Desert Plants of Avalon - LOL.... Your break from replying to all comments did not last very long. ☺ You obviously put a lot of time into this. Don't burn yourself out or we'll end up with no cactus videos.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 жыл бұрын

LOL! I know i am too addicted haha :-) XXXXXX

Those seeds look like flytrap seeds.

@desertplantsofavalon

7 ай бұрын

haha they are so similar in appearance, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and Happy Holidays XXXX