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Post by Dave Evans on Nov 19, 2014 0:50:29 GMT
What were the other pollens you tried mixing with the hamiltonii pollen?
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Post by Not a Number on Dec 16, 2014 21:20:25 GMT
What were the other pollens you tried mixing with the hamiltonii pollen? On two separate sets of flowers I tried pollinating with Dionaea muscipula and Drosera aliciae pollen, respectively. This was followed with Drosera hamiltonii pollen. I figured there would be little chance of intergeneric hybridization with Dionaea muscipula or the 2n counts of 40 or 80 for Drosera aliciae vs 28 for D. hamiltonii. None of the flowers so pollinated yielded seed. I only got seed from flowers that were pollinated with D. hamiltonii between the two location plants. |
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Post by Dave Evans on Dec 16, 2014 23:55:40 GMT
Very cool, I was wondering how you made the seed. I wonder how much cloning goes on at a single location... I would assume the plants regularly make seed in the wild, but maybe not...
As was described to me, you would have mixed the pollens and apply them together in one shot. If the stigmas were already coated in pollen, perhaps the hamiltonii pollen could not really stick right?
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Post by Not a Number on Dec 19, 2014 19:53:02 GMT
Very cool, I was wondering how you made the seed. I wonder how much cloning goes on at a single location... I would assume the plants regularly make seed in the wild, but maybe not... As was described to me, you would have mixed the pollens and apply them together in one shot. If the stigmas were already coated in pollen, perhaps the hamiltonii pollen could not really stick right? They are clonal in the wild as far as I know. How clonal I couldn't say. It seems as long as the roots are free to grow downwards they are less likely to produce offshoots. The flowers stay open for many hours - perhaps four or more. Could this perhaps increases the chances of non-clonal pollination? I'm most ignorant about pollination biology. I'll try mixing the pollen next time if I should be fortunate to get flowers again between the clones. |
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Post by Not a Number on May 15, 2016 19:33:51 GMT
After skipping a year some of my plants have flowered. I lost on complete stalk as somehow it had gotten broken at the base.  |
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