Rachel's Journal

your kitchen was like a science lab today,a lovely plant,i have some seeds,better put them somewhere safe incase they happen to get into seans sandwich!!!

:)

Oooh hope I haven't left it too late to gather my Ricinus seeds. Great tips there, Rachel. I had forgotten that they were poisonous.

Thanks Rachel.

That's dedication :-)

Rachel hope there ok, mine are still on the plant outside I'll try to leave them as long as possible, ideally until they husks change colour from red to brown. But it will be interesting to see if that makes any difference.  Jacinta EXTREMELY poisionous seed approach with caution, after 9/11 a package was sent to the White house and killed a postal worker it contained 'ricin' a deadly poision extracted from these seed :-) Tina you know what to threaten Sean with now LOL

Good luck to you too, Bill, and watch out for the frost! I grew all this year's Ricinus from seed I collected myself last year, except the New Zealand Purple you gave me.

Thanks Rachel, the frost has been kind so far.. the NZ Purple shows no sign of producting seed yet so I suspect we should have got Linda to collect some over there  :-) back to chiltern for those I think.

I think they cross pollinate, Bill. Last year I only managed to collect viable seed from the green 'Zanzibarensis' yet all the resultant plants turned out red!

Really.. wow did'nt think they did that Rachel, when you say red to you mean red leafed or red stemmed? as some of my zanzibarensis had more pronounced red stems.

All were both red leaved and stemmed, Bill.