I thought it might be interesting to document in photos (largely for myself I guess) the progression of raising a crop of Anthurium seeds from seed to maturity.
I pollinated the spadix of my Anthurium warocqueanum (Queen Anthurium) with pollen from a plant currently referred to as Anthurium besseae aff, an as yet undescribed species.
Warocqueanum
Besseae aff
resultant berries
The first seeds were sown October 30. These are the seedlings today today, December 7
Seeds continued to be sown sequentially as the berries ripened. The last seeds were sown in mid November. Those seedlings are all coming up now. There will be well over 100 seedlings eventually, probably closer to 200
It will be interesting to see the different genetics that emerge from these individuals. There is always a chance of obtaining unique different looking plants from the same pollination. For example, both of these larger older plants are from the same spadix of seeds, this is a different A. warocqueanum cross. Same parents, same batch of seeds, different looking progeny
