Re: pollen
Brian George Kirkland (bgkirkla@unity.ncsu.edu)
Tue, 11 Oct 1994 14:14:25 -0400
On Oct 11, 9:27am, Andreas Wistuba wrote:
> Subject: Re: pollen
>
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I am just trying to find a way to store Nepenthes pollen over longer
> > > periods of time. Any pollen is welcome for experimenting.
> > >
> > > Also I will shortly have a female N. fusca flowering and would like to
> > > create some nice hybrids.
> > >
> > > Any pollen available?
> > >
> > > Currently I have pollen of N. tobaica, N. maxima Sulawesi, N. alata x
> > > maxima, N. x Mixta and shortly N. spectabilis which wait for being sent
to
> > > any female Nepenthes...
> > > All the best
> > > Andreas
> >
> > Andreas: That's a good question, how do you store Nepenthes pollen now? I
> > have had fairly good results simply refrigerating Sarracenia pollen, does
this
> > work for Nepenthes?
> >
> I am currently trying storing them dried and cold at -20 degrees
> centigrade. I pollinated a N. maxima with pollen stored like this for
> 2 days and hope that it will set seeds. I think some kind of a
> Nepenthes pollen-bank would be a great improvement for both creating
> seeds of true species and to create good hybrids. In the past
> hybrids were created by just putting together what flowered at the
> same time. This lead to some uninteresting hybrids. I think the aim
> of crossing should be the breeding of clones of horticultural
> interest. In recent times many species which show unique features
> have entered the collections and some kind of a breeding programme
> could lead to very desirable plants.
>
>
> All the best
>
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
> Andreas Wistuba
> Mudauer Ring 227
> 68259 Mannheim
> Germany
> Inet: A.Wistuba@Dkfz-Heidelberg.de
> Phone: +49-621-705471 Fax: +49-621-711307
>-- End of excerpt from Andreas Wistuba