Dear Jasonh-san,
Konnichiwa!
Thank you very much for your reply!
BTW your PM option seems to be disabled.
Oops! I completely forgot about my settings. I will change it soon.
Since this has become a ten page thread, I might have missed the one particular post of yours, but could you elaborate point 3: "keep or control the seed moisture content " ? How do you control the moisture of nepenthes seeds in your refrigerator. in comparison to drosera seeds or sort of cold stratification like sarracenia seeds?
My thought is the unfounded conjecture.
I store many kind of seeds with silica gel. I store seeds with silica gel in plastic packets or sealed plastic containers. Especially Australian species (including non-cp). Regarding cps, I have succeeded to store
Byblis seeds for ten years with silica gel.
Please go to:
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/inde...a-‘carson-river-blackish-maroon-zigzag-stem’/
(I have created several threads to be related to
Byblis on the forum. please see them if you are interested in
Byblis)
I can't recollect my motive, but I have always stored all
Nepenthes seeds without silica gel in my refrigerator. My friend sent
Nepenthes eymae seeds to me using the envelope that the inside of it was made of bubble wrap. In the refrigerator, the envelope has not been sealed up completely. However the seeds seemed to be saved from the drying. I have never succeeded in the germination from the shriveled
Nepenthes seeds (actual seed inside the husk).
In the same post, I wrote:
Dear N_CloudySkies-san,
We may encounter the same problem that zoos have already had. I wish that skilled botanists, skilled nurseries and skilled growers would have the concern about this matter.
I meant "How to avoid the inbreeding depression".
From my experience of the
Byblis breeding programs, I was made acutely aware of the inbreeding depression in the allogamous plant. How quickly to appear (in a few generations)!
Almost
Byblis species (except many of
B. liniflora variations) are the allogamous plants. Almost
Byblis aff.
filifolia species I selected my
Byblis breeding programs with are the complete allogamous plants.
Nepenthes is a dioecious species that is the benchmark for a complete allogamous plant. Of course I know
Nepenthes is the perennial plant. The vegetative propagation is easy basically.
However when we realize the importance of the sexual reproduction and carry out it. I believe we will encounter the inbreeding depression in the cultivated
Nepenthes plants in our child or grandchild's generations (I hope some of them will be interested in
Nepenthes).
Kind regards from the Far East