Posted by Tom Broome on 7/21/2007, 1:41 pm, in reply to "Zamia variegata" --Previous Message--
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: Hi Tom,
: I´m looking for pollen of
: Z.variegata as the female is almost
: ready but the male too lazy. And I
: haven´t stored any. as i don´t want
: to waste the cone do you know of a
: source for pollen? Thanks a lot,
: Udo.
:
I have several male plants with cones, but mailing you pollen from over here would almost ruin the pollen for viability. Is the male cone on your plant anywhere close to being full size? If it is, one of my advanced tricks is to bend the cone a little. Not enough to make it smap off, but enough so that sometimes, it will elongate faster. Also, if you don't get pollen anywhere else, you can still extract the pollen from your male, even if the cone has not elongated and dropped pollen. You don't get as many seeds as the regular way, but I got 25% good seeds. How long till your female is ready?
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