Are there more seeds in the my two Clivia seed pods?

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  1. vicarious1

    vicarious1 Active Member 10 Years

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    Hello I tried to get this URL for post on my phone no luck. I am trying to grow Clevia from my first seeds in Vancouver Canada. My question is I had two red balls they finally fell off after nearly six month we are indoors in December. I would like to know are there more individual seed pods in one ball? I have seen someone braking it open and getting four individual ones. But mine seems smaller and maybe only have one? I am afraid to brake it I just put in water now and will go get fungicide.
    I have lived in Belgium and South Africa where I had at least 50 plants in my large garden.
    Here I only have two in one pot that I bought at the nursery for gold price.
    I have managed to make them bloom twice each as per a Chinese gardener who told me.
    After blooming expose to hard direct sunlight for one month then back to total shade.
    Now near Xmas the second one is blooming again. I just don't want to brake the seed pearl if there are not extra seeds inside. The ones online looked much bigger. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Q174eJ-yQTI
    Thank you.
     

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    vitog Contributor 10 Years

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    Those are the seeds; from what I read online, the berry (fruit) may contain 1 to 15 seeds.
     
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    vicarious1 Active Member 10 Years

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    Hi...mmmh that still a secret then.
    Are you saying I must or can brake it open
    :-)
     
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    No, don't break the seed!
     
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    The question was whether OP can open the berry to use the seeds separately.
     
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    As much I understand from the photo B, OP already broke the berry and it had 2 large seeds in it. I warned not to break these seeds, there is no more smaller seeds inside these large seeds.
     
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    vicarious1 Active Member 10 Years

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    Hello no I did NOT break the berry I just took the skin off trying to find if there more seeds inside?
    I got two berries from the plant. But the video link that I showed clearly shows the person braking that berry open and it show that the seeds are INSIDE the berries. That's why I want to know is it likely that there are more seeds inside each berry? In the moment they are floating in a small bowl of water room temperature
     
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    As @vitog wrote, it is possible, that there was only one seed per berry. For multiple seeds the berry must have been larger. But in fact, it is very hard to estimate sizes from your photos.
    If you take a photo of something unknown but small, always put something widely known (like a coin or AAA battery or a pencil, or a match or a ruler/measuring tape) near the subject, just for giving hint on the scale.
    On this photo a hand is for size comparison:
    Clivia-miniata-cleaned-seed.jpg (275×183)

    Propagating Clivia From Seed

    Cleaning your Clivia Seeds
     
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    vicarious1 Active Member 10 Years

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    Thank you for you detailed answer. Ok this is my male hand.
     

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    vitog Contributor 10 Years

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    The brown spheres are definitely seeds; the skin that you tore off was the outer part of the berry.
     
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