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To Cut or not to Cut
Hi CP lovers
Okays my N miranda has bravely shown "his" spike and its still very very short probally opening in about a month or so.Anyways as i have seen how much a flower can actually exhaust flower from a little unsigtly experience from my mixta x fusca which had half of its stem turn woody and loosing some of its pitchers and newer pitchers are smaller.My miranda has already 1 tendrill curling around the plant hangers and it seems to want to make another round around my mixta x fusca woddy stem and looks good So if there is anyone with a female flowering i might not cut it off.Well even if i don't i'm afraid i still don't know how to collect pollen...Yes i have heard of all the ways to extract it and theorically i know put pratical wise i have no experience.So if i let it bloom and i don't know how to extract pollen then it'll be a waste of the miranda's energy.Oh yea one thing pollen can be stored in a freezer right? Ken
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
No need to cut. Collect the pollen.
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
Pollen can be stored in the fridge. Don't need freezer.
Hope that your plant survives. Cheers
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
Well aaron i would love the collect pollen if it doesn't exhaust it that much............And edward i thought normally people store in freezer O.O anyways i guess i'll let it flower.
Ken
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It won't take a way a lot of energy. This is not dionaea muscipula.
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
Hi Aaron
Every plant has different reaction when they are making flowers......The most obvious thing i see is smaller pitchers or maybe smaller leaves. Ken
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
My miranda has no problems after flowering. I think neps are very hardy.
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I agree with Aaron, as I noticed my Nep x Miranda continuing to grow and pitcher after flowering, although the pitchers have started to go aerial.
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My miranda pitchers has also started to go upper cos the newest tendrill was like twirling around everything it could ever hold on to.
Ken
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Re: To Cut or not to Cut
Mirabilis and its hybrids are even more prolific in twining. Mine has gone up to the top of my shedhouse. When they dry up they leave a tangle of tendrils and pitchers behind, just like its infamous scrambling nature in its habitat
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