Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V6 #233

[Michael Eckardt <mike at odg_com>]

Maybe you didn't rub hard enough :-)

AFAIK, please correct me, but I believe that Criniums are self-sterile. 
Even old pollen from the same plant would not do anything.

This brings up another question for all:
Since Criniums form daughter plants on the bulb of the mother plant both 
are genetically identical. Does this mean that pollen from the one will 
also not fertilize the other?

Michael


At 05:05 AM 7/24/03 -0400, you wrote:
> My crinum aquatica is flowering again.  This time
> there are two flowers forming on the spike.  The
> second flower should probably develop a week or 10
> days behind the first flower.  When the plant flowered
> last year, I rubbed the sexual parts of the flower
> together in the hopes of getting some seeds.  It
> didn't work.  Does anyone have experience with saving
> pollen?  I plan on saving pollen from the first flower
> and using this saved pollen on the second flower in
> the hopes of getting some seeds.