Nep flower hand pollination

[NepNut]

Originally Posted by caseyhoo

How I wish my flower for me... Male/female I dont mind...

Originally Posted by Harris Azariel

Thanks!!this makes me want my nep to flower.my nep nvr flower for me.

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

Originally Posted by delphiguy

Your the man... now im eager for one of my neps to flower... just to give this a try.

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

[Harris Azariel]

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

[sooxiwei]

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...

[NepNut]

Originally Posted by Harris Azariel

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

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

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.

[Harris Azariel]

owh....i understand.thanks!

[Boris]

Originally Posted by NepNut

Hard to say, perhaps ~ 1 month?? The seed pods will turn to dark brown color when it's "ripe". I usually wait for one of the seed pod to split open before I know for sure all seeds are almost ready to be harvested.

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






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:



main vine climbing at the ceiling of my basement:

[allenphoon]

Originally Posted by Boris

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

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

[Boris]

Originally Posted by allenphoon

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

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

[allenphoon]

Originally Posted by Boris

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

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

[NepNut]

Thanks for sharing the "riping" part of the seeds.

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...