Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Seeking male cones of Coontie v Crystal River




I have six female cones that will need pollen. I am looking for male cones from coontie v Crystal River only. I am not interested in cross pollinating with another Varient of Coontie. Please contact me if you have a male Coontie v Crystal River and it currently has at least one cone. Any lead on a male would be greatly appreciated.
George aka the Coontie-nut

Tuesday, October 30, 2007


Here is the picture I promised of the seedlings grown from the Coontie v Homestead that were collected in habitat for my last spring. The seedcoats were removed by mother nature and they were soaked 24 hours and then planted 1/2 down in sand and sprouted in two months. They have continued to sprout through out the summer.

Friday, October 5, 2007

The mother plant of my seedlings


About a year ago I put a plea out to all the Florida gardeners at Dave's Garden web site for help in aquiring wild collected, site specific seeds of Coontie variants. I recieved som seeds from a kind lady who picked them off the ground around this plant in Homestead Florida. I now have a nice pot of healthy seedlings groing from these seeds and the lady was kind enough to e-mail me this photo of the "Mother plant". What a beauty. Large clump of Coontie v Homestead of unknown age. I will post pictures of the seedling tomorrow.

George aka Coontie-Nut

Coning coontie variants






I have several coonties coning right now including some important variants. The first three are all different cones on a large clump of Coontie v Crystal River. The bottom two are Coontie v Fanning Springs. I have two Fanning Springs and hope that I have both a male and female plant in order to propigate this wonderful variant on Conntie.