Plant breeding app for iPhone and Android

Track every cross, pedigree and pollen batch in one app

Botanical Curator is the breeding logbook for serious Haworthia and Clivia growers. Record pollinations, follow seed through to seedlings, keep your pollen freezer in order and see which plants will flower together next season.

R150 on the App Store and Google Play. Works fully offline.

Breeding records belong in one place

Years of crosses are hard to reconstruct from notebooks, plant tags and spreadsheets. Botanical Curator keeps the whole chain linked, from the pollen in the freezer to the seedling in the pot.

Without it

Parentage lives on pot labels that fade
Pollen age is a guess, and so is the freezer tube
Harvest windows slip past and seed is lost
Which seedlings came from which sowing is unclear

With Botanical Curator

Every plant carries its seed parent, pollen parent and origin cross
Pollen is dated, located and flagged when it gets old
A harvest reminder fires on the expected date
Seedlings are named and linked back to the exact sowing

Inventory

A photo-first collection you can actually browse

Every plant gets a card with its photo, botanical name and phenotype. Add up to 12 photos per plant, choose the main image, and correct photo dates when you are adding older pictures.

Five categories you can combine: Breeding, Collection, Seedling, Own Breeding and Reference Cultivar
Keep reference cultivars you do not own so you can name them as parents
Search and filter, with a family switcher for Haworthia, Clivia and Other
Export and import your inventory as CSV

Inventory grid of Clivia plants with photos and dates

Plant detail page with photo pager, identity and phenotype

Pedigree and genetics

Know exactly where every plant came from

Record seed and pollen parents and drill back through three generations. Flag recessive carriers, and the app tells you when two parents share a hidden trait.

Three-generation pedigree you can tap through
Split and carrier tags, with a compatibility hint when both parents carry the same one
Related-parent notice for backcrosses and shared ancestors
Heritage composition for interspecific and intergeneric plants, averaged from the parents
Split Offset names pups automatically (Pup A, Pup B and on) and carries the pedigree across

Plant editor showing pedigree and genetic carrier tags

Flowering log, pedigree, awards and Split Offset button

Crosses

From pollination to harvest without losing the thread

Each cross shows its seed parent and pollen parent side by side. Log the pollination, the fruit set, the harvest and the seed count, and the app works out the rates for you.

Fruit set percentage and average seeds per berry or capsule
Expected harvest date from the family: about 10 months for Clivia berries, about 2 months for Haworthia capsules
Harvest reminder notification on the expected date
Pick from your stored pollen and the batch count drops automatically

Crosses grid with seed and pollen parent photos

Cross editor with pollination and harvest details

Sowing and seedlings

Raise seedlings that remember their parents

Record the sowing date, seeds sown and first germination. Then raise seedlings straight from the cross: each one is named, tagged with its family, parents and heritage, and linked back to the sowing it came from.

Germination rate and days to germination worked out for you
Seedling names count up (CODE-1, CODE-2) and are never reused, even after a delete
Record seedling pigmentation to follow colour lines early

Germination, harvest reminder and Raise Seedlings

Pollen inventory

A freezer log that tells you when pollen is getting old

Log each batch with its source plant, freezer location, quantity and viability notes. A colour-coded age badge shows how long it has been stored, and batches past six months are flagged as likely stale.

Source plant photo on every card, so you recognise the pollen at a glance
Depleted batches marked automatically
Search by source, freezer box or viability notes

Pollen batch editor with storage and quantity

Bloom analytics

See which plants will flower together next season

Log flowering dates year after year. Botanical Curator estimates each plant’s peak window and pairs the plants whose windows overlap, so you know when a cross is makeable.

Predicted peak window per plant, sharpened by first bud and last flower drop dates
Natural pairings ranked by overlap
Flowering log on every plant to track stability over time

Backup and sharing

Your collection stays yours

Everything is stored on your device and the app works fully offline. Connect a Google account only if you want backup, restore or sharing. The app only ever touches files it created.

One-tap backup of records and photos to your Google Drive, re-uploading only changed photos
Restore on a new phone, merging rather than overwriting
Share your collection with a breeding partner, with optional edit access
Deleted records are kept for 30 days so an older backup can bring them back

Share with another grower and maintenance

Built for Haworthia and Clivia

One app, with the vocabulary each community actually uses. Any other genus can be logged too under Other.

Haworthia

Window type and pattern suggestions, from glassy to reticulated to murasaki
Heritage tracked at genus level for Haworthia, Haworthiopsis and Tulista crosses
Capsule terminology and a short harvest window
Variegation terms such as nishiki and aurea

Clivia

Flower colour, flower form and leaf shape suggestions
Split tags for peach, yellow groups, green, bronze and pastel
Heritage tracked at species level for interspecific work
Berry terminology and a 10 month harvest window

And the details that save you time

Smart autofill

Pick two parents and the species, plant name and cross name fill in. Anything you type yourself is never overwritten.

Exhibition records

Log show awards per plant, from Best on Show to Honourable Mention, with the class and judges’ comments.

Duplicate names allowed

Hold several plants of one species. You get a gentle notice, never a block.

Location tracking

Note the greenhouse and bench for every plant so you can find it in seconds.

Acquisition history

Record who you got a plant from and when, for trades and purchases.

Dark mode

Follows your phone’s appearance setting, handy in a dim shade house.

Made by growers, for growers

Botanical Curator comes from Living Desert Plants, a specialist succulent nursery in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It was built for Harry and Skye’s own Haworthia and Clivia breeding programmes and shaped by how real breeders work.

Questions growers ask

How much does Botanical Curator cost?

Botanical Curator is R150 on the App Store and Google Play.

Which plants does it support?

It is built around Haworthia and Clivia, with suggestion lists and terminology for each. Any other plant can be logged under Other, because genus and species are free text.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Your collection is stored on your device and the app works fully offline. A Google account is only needed for backup, restore and sharing.

How do I back up my collection?

Connect a Google account in Backup and Sharing and tap Back Up Now. Your records and photos go to a folder in your own Google Drive. Restoring on a new phone merges your backup in, so nothing is overwritten or deleted.

Can I share my collection with a breeding partner?

Yes. Enter your partner’s Google email, choose whether they can edit, and share. They can restore your collection into their own copy of the app.

Can I import and export my data?

Yes. You can export and import your plants and crosses as CSV files.

I used Clivia Curator. Will I lose my data?

No. Botanical Curator replaces Clivia Curator as an update and keeps your existing records.

Start your breeding log today

Get Botanical Curator for R150 and keep every cross, pedigree and pollen batch in one place.

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Botanical Curator: Haworthia and Clivia Breeding App