Sophronitis cernua (Project 14 - Spring 2012)

[31drew31]

Originally Posted by TheBlazingAugust

This sounds pretty exciting!!!! Did you pollinate the flowers with pollen just from the Soph. cernua?

Sorry missed this earlier, yup just self pollinated it.

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by 31drew31

Sorry missed this earlier, yup just self pollinated it.

Well, if you find someone to flask it for you, I would love to get my hands on a few seedlings! I really like your cernua!

[31drew31]

I will keep that in mind! I have a friend who is just starting in TC so if I get seeds they will probably be going to him to try out.

Little update; all the flowers have closed up, even ones that were only open about one week. Think that's a good sign.

[orchidsarefun]

drew31.........what happened ? is your pollination experiment a success so far ?

[31drew31]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

drew31.........what happened ? is your pollination experiment a success so far ?

Well 1 out of 8 flowers completely dropped off (you can see it still attached in the photo, it fell off right afterwards... back middle brownish one). This one had been open a long time, and was not looking all that great when I pollinated it. The other 7 are still looking good thus far. Heres a photo taken today.

[orchidsarefun]

looking good.
You may want to remove a couple of them, leaving at most 3. The plant may abort them all as it would be too much to handle in terms of nutrients, stress etc......or you could just see what happens.

[Vina]

Originally Posted by 31drew31

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Little update; all the flowers have closed up, even ones that were only open about one week. Think that's a good sign.

wow! sounds pretty exciting! pity you're so far from my place, otherwise I would try to clearly demonstrate the need for couple of seedlings

well, here is mine (I'm surprised for those spikes)

[31drew31]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

looking good.
You may want to remove a couple of them, leaving at most 3. The plant may abort them all as it would be too much to handle in terms of nutrients, stress etc......or you could just see what happens.

I had thought about that. Im just going to see what happens and if they all abort, so be it haha. There is always next year


Nice flowers Vina!

[Rowangreen]

Yours is looking impressive Vina!

And congrats on the pods Drew!

I think I may be getting some compensation for my cernua not flowering this year. One of it's TC's looks like it may be producing an unexpected flower spike: my Cynoches Wine Delight. It's only supposed to be a young plant: it came with one pulb and a new growth! Though that growth is now a pulb about 3 times the size of the first! It's actually sitting right next to the cernua LOL

[orchidsarefun]

Update, these are growing comparatively quickly

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