Tropical Zone Gardening: cinnamon seeds, 0 by bananaman

bananaman wrote:
I have a cinnamon tree (true cinnamon) that is over 7 feet tall and is blooming now for the first time. I am considering harvesting the seeds when they are ripe but can't find much about how to know when they are ripe and if that is a difficult process. Anyway, I also wanted to harvest a lower limb and try to scrape and cure a few rolls of cinnamon. They say all of the cinnamon we buy here in the US is false cinnamon (cassia species) so I am dying to try the real thing. Let me know if you have any advice. Here is a picture I took today. The red leaves are the new growth and are very attractive. I live in SW Florida in Charlotte county which is really a zone 9b.