Hi !congrats for your videos! I do like them and it's so inspirational for me. We share the same passion for plants. Keep updating us with new wonders.
Thank you so much for your support 🙏. It does make me do more and better videos. Summer has been very disappointing this year and I didn't shoot many videos but I will upload one soon on update on my garden
Yes those red things have seeds inside them. If you are in a hotter country those will fall of the plant and they you can collect them. In UK weather gets cold so I hand picked them. One pod has many seeds
Hi there. My experience with growing Castor Oil plants comes firstly from when I lived in semi arid rural Australia, at 33 Degrees South Latitude and now I live at 44 degrees South Latitude in New ZEaland. So a climate still much drier and less cold in Winter, than in Britain. Yes all parts of a Castor Oil plant are poisonous and the seeds mostly, but I've never bothered wearing gloves. Really the only concerns are if someone was to Eat, Drink, or Smoke the plant. So DO NOT do any of that. Medicinal Castor Oil is made in a special way which leaves the poison behind. ONLY make your own Medicinal Castor Oil if you are 100% sure what you are doing. Growing it for decoration indoors or outdoors, or growing outside for shade or as a curiousity, it is fine. Just don't let people especially children pick up the seeds and eat them. Cats and dogs know not to eat the seeds. Same with chickens and ducks etc. In my experience collecting seeds from the plants have been unreliable. So I wait until the seeds, literally explode and fly off the plants by themselves. They do this on warm afternoons, even sometimes in Winter if there is a warm Sunny afternoon. Most Winters, before frosts have killed all my outdoor plants in the ground, I bring inside several small potted specimens and put them near a Sunny window inside. On some warm afternoons I will hear the crack sound and crawl around the floor looking for the 3 seeds that I know have just popped off. In this climate, some Winters are slightly milder and some of my outdoor plants will survive with most of their leaves killed off by frost. But the plant will sprout from the woody lower trunk region. Those plants grow bigger and better that second Summer as they already have large roots established.
Thank you writing detailed information on this plant, very helpful. I did collect the seeds early they were viable and sprouted very quickly this spring. I have some left over from this one, I will try next spring if still viable
