Female N Gracilis Flower
 

My N gracilis is flowering again. This time three flower stalks. If anyone wants to send me the pollen, please do it soon. Otherwise I'll have to ablate again.

I'll share 50/50 with the contributing donor. If all goes well that is, my first time playing stork.

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My male miranda has already opened 4 buds. How to collect the pollen? First time my plant flower.

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Take a small brush, art paint brush will suffice (new). Brush the pollen from each flower into a clean container. Collect from as many and as much as possible. Store in cool place. When enuf, post laju to me soon.

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OK

Re: Female N Gracilis Flower
 

hi guys

if any of you have some new seeds i would really want to try my luck with them


thanks

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I'll wait for Aaron to send me the pollen first. Flowers are opening. Hurry, Aaron!! Double march.

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Gracilis infloresence will be only active when they open.I pollinated my flowers as soon as the flower opened.

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Hi Ali,
I have pollen of Indah(YG) and N. mirabilis x viking.
Do you interesting? Please PM me.:smile:

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I have pollen of mixta x fusca..............bactrus..........Well i'm not so experienced on taking pollen though but i might wanna try..........Its almost fully bloomed now......And it stinks....But somehow my mom loves that smell

Ken

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I have a couple of N. x Miranda male infloresence that opening up just fine, if you are interested, gimme a holler :)

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At the moment, I think we'll stop with Aaron and I'll grab the pollen from you today Athene. So got four female, two pollenated by Athene and other two by Aaron. Will use Athene's to pollenate the open anther.

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I've collected pollen but still not enough. I'll give you when its enough.

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No worries, Aaron. That is before the flower withers.

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You still got other flower stalks right. Mine need to wait until it opens all the flowers.

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Aaron, you better post the pollen today else the bride is not gonna be at the altar.

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Its not much but I'll post it to you maybe tomorrow.

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Hmmm........I hope it isn't a sad ending. I have seen too many sentimental movies and I feel sooo touched.......

Cheers

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Don't worry. But I'm afraid its not enough. Just enough to fill a short fingernail.

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Like us humans, it only takes one to fertilize :) Good luck you guys. My male flower X Indah is still closed, will be willing to share pollen to anyone who has female flower, most probably by January.

Boy we are really bad parents, talk about forced marriages :)

TTFN
Arvin

Re: Female N Gracilis Flower
 

edward...You're a funny guy

Ken

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LOL Arvin...i seen two of my boys but no girls.:tongue:

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Hmmm i wonder how did a gracilis flower turned to forced marriages lol

Ken

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Where the flower has no choice to do anything but receive pollen or otherwise, die without any use. ;)

Cheers

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Okay, after Aaron's pollen, there will be enuf for all the flowers. Closing thread.

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Just an update about the flowers. I managed to successfully fertilise about 90% of the female flowers with Athene's pollen eventhough I painstakenly tried dabbing each flower with some pollen. They are swelling up nicely now. This is what I learn playing bee.

1. Even though you dab flowers with pollen, doesn't mean pollination is successful. Some flowers which I am very sure I have pollinated didn't swell up as expected. Moreover ensure quality of the pollen. A note here, Athene gave me the whole male flower and I was too lazy to scrape the pollen off. So I use tweezer to hold the male flower then dab it on the female flowers.
2. I am not too sure how long the female flowers are most viable to receive pollen. Natural process happens during the day and for a couple of days after flowers open. I think I got the latter part okay but I played bee only at night.
3. Working out how long will it take from flowers to fully formed seeds.
4. After that, quality of seeds remains to be seen.
5. Do not do it at night with articifial lighting. Try as you might, some flowers will miss out and very importantly, your eyes will hurt. I did it at night with incadecent lighting and a torchlight in my mouth.

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Hey 90% is really a good success rate!

:lol: I can just imagine you with torchlight in your mouth pollinating them flowers at nite! Lucky you weren't mistaken for a prowler ! :lol:

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Btw, how many flower stalks did you manage to pollinate with my pollen? Just want to guesstimate how much pollen is enough for how many stalk.

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All four.

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Wow! That much? I only gave you something like 1/3 worth of a Miranda pollen! Gee that a lot!

Hahaha, Athene's Stud Service at your service!

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Congrats in successfully pollinating your flower. I didn't know such little pollen can pollinate so many flowers.