Jim, how do you store your pollen to assure its viability? I have
flunked this with Camellias and would like your input.
Thanks, Shirley Meneice
J.E. Shields wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>The first Lycoris are in bloom here -- Lycoris sprengeri. I have a couple
>of scapes up on LL. longituba, but no flowers open on them yet. L.
>chinensis should not be far behind.
>
>Other than this, things are pretty quiet in my garden just now. I do have a
>couple scapes in bloom on Crinum variabile (in the ground) and a scape is
>up on Crinum lineare (in a 5-gal. container).
>
>I have not seen any signs of scapes on any Hymenocallis occidentalis so far
>this season. Other Hymenocallis in pots have bloomed well this year --
>durangoensis, liriosme, henryae, palmeri, latifolia, maximilianii, rotata,
>eucharidifolia. Even had one scape and blooms on harrisiana! H.
>harrisiana almost never blooms for me. They have not been so generous at
>setting seed this year, unfortunately.
>
>My Leptochiton quitoense seem to be dwindling away. Only had one flower
>and no seeds on quitoense this year.
>
>A question for our taxonomists: What is the gender of Leptochiton? I
>assume it is neuter, but I don't really know. The ending -on in Greek
>usually equates to the neuter ending -um in Latin, but is that always true?
>
>Nerine krigei has been blooming, and now we have one flower open on Nerine
>laticoma. I've been trying to set seed on krigei using stored pollen from
>N. bowdenii (Aad Koen's hardy clone). It looks like I may have gotten one
>or two seeds at least. NN. krigei and filifolia cross readily; the plants
>from [filifolia X krigei] have twisted leaves like the pollen parent
>(krigei). Maybe I'll try to cross laticoma and krigei. I want to try
>[bowdenii X laticoma] or the reverse, as well. Since bowdenii does not
>bloom until November, I'll have to store the pollen of laticoma to make
>that cross.
>
>Regards,
>Jim Shields
>in central Indiana (USA)
>
>
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