Post by adelea on Apr 3, 2014 6:11:55 GMT
My Aurea have been putting a show on for a few weeks now so I decided I would see who pollinates them, I have spent a couple hours watching in the morning, night, evening, midday and even early morning (3-4am), and I am yet to see any pollinator go near them, yet the majority make large 1cm seed pods, a few however don't, which is why I doubted the self fertility idea.
So are the few that don't set seed sterile?, am I missing the pollinator, is it possible its wind?
They are in a pond outside and are native to the area so presumably their natural pollinator would live here.
If they are self fertile will this effect me if I want to hybridise them with a couple of my Gibba, or is it like D.spathuata and capensis where as long as I am carful they don't self pollinate at the end of flowering it will cross fine?
