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Old 5th February 2009, 12:44 PM
arvin555 arvin555 is offline
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Default Sarracenia Seed Viability

Hi would like to ask about possibility of finding out if sarracenia seeds are viable or not.

A few months ago, you guys helped me try out an experiment with self pollenation of my S. Flava x ? (people say it might be a hybrid). The flower was pollenated by myself and it lasted several months without wilting, last month it started to finally dry out, and I already got the dried out flower, shaking it produced light brown seeds. (I am used to seeing black sarra seeds) and when I soaked them in water, they float, heck even after putting a dab of soap which usually makes the seeds sink, they still float. Wondering if this is an indication of non viability?

Another Sarra of mine is now flowering and luckily my brother's is also flowering, so I have done artificial cross pollenation now, hopefully this will be more sucessful, if the self pollenated one isn't.

Please feedback/comment

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Arvin
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