What are the problems with setting seed under artificial lights?
Yes I would like to try hybridizing. Heliamphora hybrids are so much more
vigorous than the species. I'll make arrangements with you via private e-mail.
James.
> If you are growing your plants in a greenhouse it should be possible
> to produce seeds. I know nobody who ever had seeds under artificial
> lights.
> It is important to be aware that the female part of the flower is
> ripe when the flower just starts opening.
> Take an anther of the older flower and break it in half. Dip the
> break onto the stigma of the flower which has just opened.
>
> If you are interested in producing hybrids I could send you pollen of
> H. ionasii in some time. My flowers are just the same stage as yours
> by now.
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> Andreas
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Andreas Wistuba
A.Wistuba@Dkfz-Heidelberg.de
Phone: +49-621-705471 Fax: +49-621-711307