Seed Production of Vegetable, Tuber and Spice Crops

Floral biology

• From bud initiation to full bloom takes about 20 to 25 days and 23-28 days were required to complete flowering.
  
• Flowering sequence in ginger is acropetal.
  
• In ginger, flowering started in October and continued until early December and the peak period being in November.
  
• The flowers started to open about 3 am and anthesis occurred simultaneously.
  
• Fruit is seldom produced, is an oblong thin walled, three-valved capsule but is rarely produced.
  
• Seeds are glabrous, small, black, arillate and perispermous.