self-pollination oncidium: is possible?
 

Hello! :biggrin: My oncidium is in bloom (shortly I will post the photos) and I'd like to try to sow orchids :) so I can try to auto-pollinate my oncidium... but I have a doubt: with self-pollination the oncidium produces fertile seeds or not? If no, I wait for phalaenopsis flower and I will pollinate that :D

thanks :) and sorry if my english is awful :(

seeds will be fertile if there are no ploidy issues ( some orchids are infertile ). This same issue would apply to Phals.

If you give me the names of the orchids, I can see if there is any registered progeny - which would be the first indication of fertility.

thanks! I dont know exactly which species is my oncidium, but this is tho photo of the flower :)

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps29665e13.jpg

do you know its name? :)

that MAY be an Oncidium varicosum. There are thousands of Oncidium hybrids and thus almost impossible to 100% identify.
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The good news is that varicosum is fertile. I suggest you try a selfing as an experiment. I only mentioned ploidy because I didn't want you to become discouraged from experimenting if you thought it was something you did that caused the pollination to fail.

thanks a lot! :D so I can pollinate my oncidium :)