03-01-2015, 01:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Zone: 7b
Location: Queens, NY, & Madison County NC, US
Age: 45
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Seemania sylvatica
Hi all,
Here I wish to share with you a blooming gesneriad that I grew from seed. Every year I get this plant to bloom, I pollinate it and collect the seeds. I set the seeds to grow by summer and by December I have blooms. This year I had two pots, but the first one bloomed while I was away on vacation. It also died of thirst while I was away. So no chance of survival there.
At least my second pot survived and is blooming now. But for whatever reason I have not gotten the flowers to produce pollen.
These have their anthers mature a day or two before their styles. So far I have not been able to get a good coating of pollen from the anthers. I hope I get some success.
 Seemania sylvatica by tindomul1of9, on Flickr
 Seemania sylvatica by tindomul1of9, on Flickr
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