Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy

Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy#285872

By Bhart90 -  Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:16 pm
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- Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:16 pm #285872

My agnata red leaf was pollinated about a month ago now and 4 days ago 1 of the 3 stalks shriveled and collapsed. Now a second is appearing to do the same. Whyyyy nothing has changed since I did it

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Re: Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy#285930

By Benurmanii -  Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:46 am
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- Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:46 am #285930

The majority of Mexican Pinguicula do not self easily. Either you will simply not get any seeds, or very few, week seeds. I tried crossing my emarginata with a friend's, and at first it seemed the pollination was successful, however, it has done the same thing as yours, so I am assuming I simply accidentally self-pollinated mine instead of getting pollen fromhis plant on mine's stigma.

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Re: Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy#285950

By Bhart90 -  Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:51 pm
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- Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:51 pm #285950

Well, the second flower stem, was cut off last night. I inspected the pod, and noticed it was cracked open. So I took some white paper, and oula, I have seeds, it's not full like you said, I didn't exclusively self poll. I used my only other flowering one, primiliflora. Now the test begins again

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Re: Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy#285955

By Grey -  Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:21 pm
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- Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:21 pm #285955

I'm glad you got at least some seed from it. I'd be interested in seeing how they progress!

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Re: Aborting flower seed pods! whyyyy#285958

By Benurmanii -  Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:48 pm
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- Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:48 pm #285958

P. primuliflora is from a different Subgenus and I would not expect that you could cross pollinate the two, so I would expect that the flower was just accidentally self-pollinate in the attempt to make the hybrid.

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