YAY! My first and very own flower!
Hi everyone
phew phew...(panting) gimme a second................ Okays im done with that.I just checked my N mixta x fusca for some reason today since its my tallest plant already starting to vine and it looked a bit fat at the growing tip.So i went and checked out the new leaf not yet emerging but you can see it if you open the new leaf up.I saw....:eek::eek:!!!!!!!A nepenthes flower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......Its to young to even know if its a male or female.....probally coming out of the new leaf in about 2 weeks.So i was wondering if its a male what should i do with it????If there are people intrested for the pollen what do i do to get it???......I've always been waiting for this day when my nepenthes flowers......anyways it looks like a green stick with little tentacles all around it. Ken |
Re: YAY!!!My first and very own flower!!!!!!!!!!!
Patience, ken, wait till it flowers. If it is a male flower, you may collect the pollen and sell them or store them untill you have a female flower. If it is a female, then try to get some nep. pollen to pollinate it or if you already have it, then pollinate it! Congrats, by the way!
No use selling the pollen to me, I don't know whether I even have a female nep.:laugh: Cheers |
Re: YAY!!!My first and very own flower!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Edward
Thanks for the comments.What i meant when i say what to do was......since i have no experience i don't even know how to take pollen from a male flower....to trade off give to anyone else.If it is a female i don't even know what to do to put the pollen to the flower pods eheheheheh.Kinda have 0 experience so i have to ask questions rather than sit and do nothing. Ken |
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Well, if it is a male, wait till the anthers are matured and look fuzzy. then use a paint brush and tease the anthers slowly to get the pollen. make sure you have a sheet of plastic below your anthers so that the pollen doesn't faaaalllllllll on the floor!!!:eek::eek: If you wanna pollinate the female flowers, use the faithful paintbrush again to scoop some of the pollen and transfer it to the receptive stigmas. Now isn't that easy.........:lol::lol::lol:
Btw, why is this thread in the 'All Stuff On Carnivorous Plants' sections?shouldn't it be in the nep section?:confused: Cheers |
Re: YAY!!!My first and very own flower!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Edward
Thanks for all the info well the female part is definitly more difficult hehehehe the male i can do haha.Well since normally people use nepenthes side as pictures for neps so i decided to use this one. Ken |
Re: YAY!!!My first and very own flower!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi everyone
Was just thinking if anyone have counted how many flowers have bloomed for all your nepenthes????And which of them looked the best?? Ken |
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Congrats Kent. My still haven't flowered.
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Nice one Ken, I hope you can find a great use for your flowers. If it's a female you can check the forums for available pollen and make some interesting crosses. Good luck!
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Lucky you!
None of my neps have flowered yet. It'll be at least another year I think for my biggest nep to flower. |
Re: YAY! My first and very own flower!
Hi Marigold
Don't worry they'll all flower one day. Ken |
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