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Seeding is, with all plants, essential to their life cycle. However just
as you can not expect to grow a tomato by picking a green one and
sprinkling its seeds you can't rush a beer plant by shattering its
fruit. It will break down into seeds when it is ready.
If you study nature, you will learn to love it and conserve
it and preserve it.
-- Roger Tory Peterson
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Here we see a variety of seeds from different beer plants. While full
grown cervezos can be easy to identify, the seeds are only able to be
grouped by color.
Most likely, not all the seeds shown will germinate, mostly because of
the close proximity of the seeds. As Darwin mentions in On the Origin
of Species competition is often most often had from the same species
since they are competing for the same resources. Each beer plant
uses any available nearby moisture to fill its hallow with nectar, increasing the competition
between plants. This grouping will probably lead only to between
three and six cervezos.
It will be interesting to visit next year and see which ones take root.
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