Hoya seeds : which medium is best for travel ?

Hoya verticillata variegata seeds anchored in toilet paper

Germinated seeds of Hoya verticillata variegata. I opened the zip bag 16 days after planting in humid toilet paper.

So they were 16 days without light in a closed and humid environment. Almost all the seeds have sprouted, they were selected the day of harvest ( and immediately planted to avoid fast dehydration, common with Hoya seeds ) : bad seeds from the pod, those that looked " empty " were discarded before the experiment.

This sort of paper is interesting : the seeds anchor in it easily and they can be transplanted with the paper they have attached to in transit without being disturbed. In this regard planting in a medium of peat moss instead of paper might cause more disturbance during the transfer ?

Worthy to note, seeds transplanted while still attached to their paper will find faster the upright position on the final medium.

Hoya verticillata seeds before transplanting to their final medium

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Is light not the pull factor ?

These little Hoya verticillata seeds were so eager to grow while travelling long distances in their humid zip bags !

The picture was taken only 13 days after I collected them and closed the bag. Here we see some seeds that made their way through the layers of paper !

Since the bag was in the dark it is not the light that "pulled" the embryos from the inside towards the outside of the paper. Perhaps these seeds "knew" somehow that all the other seeds around would have left them too little space inside for their growth. Or it is the air between the paper and the bag that pulled the embryos ?

Apparently being moved when travelling from Thailand to Europe did not disturb their growth.

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