Hi Roxy, I have a few if you want to e-mail me and let me know if you want them and I will give you my address for you to send stamps for me to mail them. I have plenty of bubble envelopes. Jean recipesaver2 jeanss@hughes.net

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Ditto on Diane's post- I have a Blk Current swirl that is 3 going on 4 years old now. I wanted to save the seed pods till they ripened- so I brought the pot in and the silly thing kept spitting out leaves and dropping them all winter- I don't cut them back- and last year was the first year there was some loss due to drying out at the tips. It has always bounced back nicely in the summer- I do toss a little water it's way about once a month though- I am not sure if this would work for spikey podded dats though- I think they may be more of an annual by nature. Dats in pots never seem to get as large as those that are in the ground though- My triple yellow dats made seed heads out of the first few flowers only- but boy there were HUGE! Almost base ball size! Odd though that hey did not continue to set seed... I have found that a few days soaking in warmish water speeds germination on smooth podded dats- as does bottom heat and light. They are still sporatic germinators though- as long as 3 months difference in the flats I have started. They like warmth to grow in as well- as do most tropicals. I hope you have great sucess in overwintering- (go ahead- give it a try- even if al the leaves have frozen off by now- they really work hard at trying to live!) and good luck in germination too! Julie

Thanks, karyn1. My friend with the triple purples just called. We have a hard freeze coming tomorrow night. His are loaded with pods too. His, as most of mine, are still green and have been on the plant "forever", his words. Should we just cut off all the pods tomorrow no matter what age? How will we know if they are far along enough to successfully ripen inside? BTW.. Some of my first blooms on my potted triple yellow produced pods that ripened extremely fast on the plant in late spring. Thanks, so much for info. Alice, geekgranny