Hello to everyone!
Thanks to the pollen agency I received some fresh pollen from a guy of Austria. I live in Italy.
After more than 2 years my Female Nepenthes ventrata is flowering!
I wanted absolutely have the opportunity to try to get seeds from my dear plant.
Since it is the first time that I do this...please EXPLAIN me everything I need to know to make the procedure with most chances of success!
Every day new flowers of my ventrata are ready and so I will continue to impollinate all the new flowers sequencially....
If today ( first day ) I did something wrong please correct me and tell me,ok?
Today I used a wet wooden tooth stick to collect pollen and to put it on the female flower.
Untill now I impollinated only 5 flower...during the following 7 days I will continue with the new opened flowers!
Of course...I have another question: How I know that seed will be ready to be collected from the plant? Maybe because the capsule containing them will begin to crack? ( like sarracenia flower?).
And how long can I store those seeds? 2 weeks? 3 weeks?
PLEASE...I REALLY NEED HELP! FLOWERING NEPENTHES here in Italy is really not so common!
Thanks
Mr_Aga
Milan - ITALY
PS: if someone else has some pollen more of another male please send it here to me with priority mail.I will return seeds if procdure will be succesfull!
Pagano Salvatore
Via Mar Nero 23
20152 Milan
ITALY
Thanks to the pollen agency I received some fresh pollen from a guy of Austria. I live in Italy.
After more than 2 years my Female Nepenthes ventrata is flowering!
I wanted absolutely have the opportunity to try to get seeds from my dear plant.
Since it is the first time that I do this...please EXPLAIN me everything I need to know to make the procedure with most chances of success!
Every day new flowers of my ventrata are ready and so I will continue to impollinate all the new flowers sequencially....
If today ( first day ) I did something wrong please correct me and tell me,ok?
Today I used a wet wooden tooth stick to collect pollen and to put it on the female flower.
Untill now I impollinated only 5 flower...during the following 7 days I will continue with the new opened flowers!
Of course...I have another question: How I know that seed will be ready to be collected from the plant? Maybe because the capsule containing them will begin to crack? ( like sarracenia flower?).
And how long can I store those seeds? 2 weeks? 3 weeks?
PLEASE...I REALLY NEED HELP! FLOWERING NEPENTHES here in Italy is really not so common!
Thanks
Mr_Aga
Milan - ITALY
PS: if someone else has some pollen more of another male please send it here to me with priority mail.I will return seeds if procdure will be succesfull!
Pagano Salvatore
Via Mar Nero 23
20152 Milan
ITALY