My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Pollinating the Brighamia insignis
Knowing I had a bunch of flowers coming from my two Brighamia insignis, I decided to do a little research on how to pollinate the flowers. Originally (as you can see in the pictures I took recently prior to this post), when the flowers first bloom there is no sign of the stamen or the stigma. These pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago.
Well having focus on the subject, I read several articles and they indicate that a couple of days after the initial bloom, the pollen will stack up, and a coupe of days after that the stigma will be receptive to receiving pollen. Well when I got home today, I had seen something I've not seen before with these two plants - pollen and a visible stigma.
I had also thought that pollinating these plants would involve using some really thin probe as the flowers have really long, narrow throats. Well - after reading and observing, I now know that is the furthest thing from reality. Hopefully I'll get some fruits and seeds from this grouping of flowers!
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