So, I pollinated some of my orchids today.

[orchidsarefun]

sorry, couldn't find anything fengmei

[tim_r95]

It's a cross of little gem stripes x doudii golden princess

[orchidsarefun]

its Fangmei Sweet and it has 1 progeny registered in 2012 -it should be fertile. If pollination failed its highly likely that the other cross is infertile. ( its to do with ploidy, a highly complex subject involving chromosome counts )
If you are doing this for fun/to experiment, you can self this one and see if you can get a pod to set.

[tim_r95]

I'll try that then. I tried to pollinate the big white one to itself on multiple different flowers and nothing happened, I'm thinking it may be infertile.

[orchidsarefun]

if you can, plse post a photo of your Fangmei.
OrchidWiz has photos of 5 ( !!! ) siblings, all different colours. From yellow with red veining, to like a magenta red, to white with pink stripes, yellow with reddish lips and
finally a white with a pinkish/magenta strong blush.
Which one is yours ? Ha !



so if you manage to self it, you could end up with just about anything in the above range and in-between !

[tim_r95]

Okay.

[orchidsarefun]

yep - that looks like one of the pictures.......
GL on whatever you decide to do.

[tim_r95]

Okay, well I did another pollination. Hopefully this one will work.

[escualida]

Originally Posted by tim_r95

I'll try that then. I tried to pollinate the big white one to itself on multiple different flowers and nothing happened, I'm thinking it may be infertile.

Some orchids don't like to be selfed and won't produce seed pods with their own pollen, it doesn't necessarily mean it's infertile though...