Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 16:47:00 EST From: "Mellard, David" <dam7@ATSDHA1.EM.CDC.GOV> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1479$foo@default> Subject: RE: Help my Sarracenia flower
Hi Eric,
This has never happened to me. I assume you want to pollinate it? If so,
gently bend the flower over until the pollen can fall down onto the umbrella
part of the flower. You may have to shake the flower a bit once it's in the
right postion. This will dislodge the pollen and allow it to fall on the
base of the umbrella part of the flower. You can gently lift up a petal and
now see the pollen on the umbrella. Use a brush to collect some of the
pollen and gently brush the stigma, which is a small projection on the
inside of each point of the umbrella part part of the flower. There are
four of five points. I've read that you only have to brush one point, but I
brush several just to be sure. When the flower is in the right postion, the
petals will fall down between the points of the umbrella.
I hope this is clear enough.
good luck,
David
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> From: Eric Kamakea
> Trouble is, the flower started to open up while yet in the erect vetical
>position. The flower stem never bent over. Now the flower has ceased to
>do anything.... it neither continues to open, nor does its flower stem
>advance; not in overall height nor in length so that it may bend over.
>What do I do? What can i do? Has this ever happened to anybody before?
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