Baby Houseleek

About 6 weeks ago I sowed some seeds saved last year from houseleeks that had flowered. The seeds were tiny, like dust, so no pictures of them. But some of the seeds have germinated and started to grow the leaves that will eventually turn into a rosette. Goodness knows what they will look like when fully grown, they don't stay true to variety. I'm intending to document progresss towards full-scale rosettes , so here is the first picture. The outer leaves are about 3mm across.

Q-S1 + reversed Cosina 24mm KA. More of an experiment that an optimal macro setup, but it's showing promise - and it's fun!

Thoughts, comments, amazement at nature etc. welcome as usual. It's surely not a race between Lubbyman's houseleeks and Coker's Orange Tip...




Steve

I'll kick off with "Harry" the house leek..............


Coker/Roger.

I shall watch this channel - I like house leeks - I've got one or two of them.

Nicely done Steve - I'll watch as the series develops

Never heard of houseleeks. We live and learn !

Only one or two??? Surely more...

And so will I - this is the first time I've grown them from seed so it's an unfolding mystery to me, too.

Botanical name Sempervivum, meaning 'always alive' or in the language of gardening 'survives any amount of neglect'. The perfect plant.

Methinks it's time to name a pupa...

pschlute wrote:
Never heard of houseleeks. We live and learn !

AKA Sempervivum