Check out this Echinopsis flower

mjazz · Post by **mjazz** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:26 pm

The flower is from the Echinopsis Oxygona on the left. I used the jamacaru to prop it up.
Would it self pollinate? If I put it outside for the bees, would it set seed? Or should I wait for the other spike to flower also?

phil_SK · Post by **phil_SK** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:49 pm

No, it won't self pollinate, and even if both flowers are open at the same time it still won't pollinate because they're on the same plant and are, therefore, 'the same'.

mjazz · Post by **mjazz** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:51 am

Thanks Phil, I didn't know that.
So one could assume that cuttings from the same plant wouldn't be able to reproduce either, when they flowered.

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:32 am

nice flower!

mjazz · Post by **mjazz** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:46 am

StrUktO wrote:nice flower!

Thanks!

phil_SK · Post by **phil_SK** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:09 am

mjazz wrote:So one could assume that cuttings from the same plant wouldn't be able to reproduce either, when they flowered.

Correct