Harvesting seeds should wait until they are ripe. Generally, it takes about a month and a half for Saussurea involucrata to mature from pollination. When you see the skin of the snow lotus seed, it becomes translucent and can vaguely see the seed, it means that it will mature. At this time, the petioles will slowly wither, and you can pick them off.
Note that when the climate is very dry, the seed pods of Saussurea may crack, so that the seeds will come out too late to harvest. If you can't collect the seeds in time, you should use a bag to wrap them in advance to avoid the seeds falling.
Harvest the seeds of snow lotus. If you harvest them in advance, the seeds may not mature. Put them in use and slowly dry them out. The seeds can also mature slowly.
Dry seed pods will slowly crack and show seeds.
In fact, if you have the experience of collecting seeds, you will know that there are 5 pistils in the seed pod of snowdrop, each of which has seeds.
If pollination is not successful, then the seed pod will be very dry, there is no or only a small number of seeds, more is the seed coat.
Snow lotus seed is a unique wine red, and the size is relatively large.
To separate the seed and seed coat, you can put the seed on a piece of white paper, tilt the paper, tap the paper gently, the mature seed is relatively heavy, and the seed coat is relatively light, so you can separate the seed and seed coat.
Just collect the separated seeds.
