Cactus fruit
- Subject: Cactus fruit
- From: "Gunnar Dath" g*@otenet.gr
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:11:48 +0200
- Importance: Normal
A while ago I asked about the best way to harvest seed from a cactus that
has formed a large fruit. I was asked to supply a picture of the cactus and
the fruit and now I have put it on a temporary website:
http://users.otenet.gr/~golath/temp/cactus.htm
Someone told me that the seeds are dispersed in nature by birds who eat the
seeds and then drop them at various places. I guess this makes the seeds
ready to germinate. (No,...)
Any advice as how to treat the seeds? Drying them? Cleaning? Soaking, and if
so in what? I guess the seeds that he birds eat get a lot of acid, soak the
seeds in vinegar?
TIA
Gunnar
