Re: Nep flower hand pollination
 

Be patience, if the plant is healthy and mature, grown in the right condition, it'll eventually flower... :smile:

Thanks, hope you'll get the chance to try soon. :smile:

Re: Nep flower hand pollination
 

so i must put away my nep from rain if in pollination?

Re: Nep flower hand pollination
 

wow, interesting...hope there's a female flower around...by chance...gracilis give the the biggest hope as all other's never seems to be flowering any time soon apart from the campa...

Re: Nep flower hand pollination
 

Just think, if wild nep couldn't be pollinated sucessfully, won't they be extinct by now?? :smile:

What I'm stating is just so the odds of pollination is better (to avoid pollination before watering) since most of the time, we only have very limited amount of pollen available to be use.

Re: Nep flower hand pollination
 

owh....i understand.thanks!

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Great instructions and pics Robert!
I'd like to add that I wait until most of the pods have split. To not loose so many seeds falling out of the pods I'll make my flowerspikes a bit more sexy and put on some stockings when the first pods are starting splitting :biggrin:

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/neps_in_stockings_01.jpg

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/neps_in_stockings_02.jpg


Edit:
I thought I'll share two pics of my crazy female N. spathulata. It has put out at all 20 flowerspikes in the past two months:

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/spath_flower_01.jpg

main vine climbing at the ceiling of my basement:

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/spath_flower_02.jpg

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wow...it look so sexy....btw, are the cloth are socks????!!!:confused:

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yes ... nylon socks ... I should have taken fotos when I used better looking stockings ... the black ones or so *biggrin2*

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wow....i can imagine what it will be when you remove it, imagine, black socks with a lot of fur.......:spinning:

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Thanks for sharing the "riping" part of the seeds. :1thumbup:

I also noticed some of my female nep will produce a few flower stalks in one go but I found the seed pods produce under this condition tends to be smaller in size. I guess it's logical since flowering process drain a lot of energy from nep and if there's more than one flower stalk, the limited enegery will have to be divided. That's my humble opinion... :smile: