Yay...a flower!

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spawt

• Apr 25, 2002

• #1

ok...i have a flower on my P. primuliflora that is almost fully bloomed. When and how should pollinate?

josh

 

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cephalotus88

• Apr 25, 2002

• #2

once the flower blooms, take a tooth pick and insert into the mouth of the flower. gather pollen lcated in a blob of yellow stuff near the front, and stick down throuth repeatly.

 

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spawt

• Apr 25, 2002

• #3

waycool...easy enough.
now how many times do i do this? just once? or would it be better if i did it a few times in a week or so?

josh

 

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cephalotus88

• Apr 26, 2002

• #4

few times a week, better if you could once a day. gently! the flower might fall off if too hard

 

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RamPuppy

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• Apr 29, 2002

• #5

I have not pollinated my pings simply because when their leaves hit the groung, I get what seems like hundreds of little plantlets.. I am about to have a PING forest.

 

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CP2k

• Apr 29, 2002

• #6

Yep, that is what P.primuliflora does best, but the plantlet thing does not work with most other pings except maybe heterophylla 'alfredae'...