mmmmm, juicy....

[Mr.Fakename]

Originally Posted by tmoney

btw, which did you say again: green pod, mature, or no preference?

If you flask yourself, try green pod, it's much easier as you can toss the pod in alcohol, flame it, and sprinkle the seeds.

If you send seeds, the best way (IMO) is dried, the pod will most likely burst in transit anyway.


@Dorchid : it's super easy and cheap to send seeds overseas, I just posted a letter to the US, for the whopping price of €1.6!

[tmoney]

Originally Posted by Dorchid

I’d love to take a stab at flasking some of those seeds if you have any extra!

yeah, as mr. f says, it shouldn't be a big deal. and, while i thought all of the reciprocal crosses had failed, i'm slightly optimistic that maybe i was presumptuous and the flava plants are just making the capsules muuuuuch more slowly. neither of the flowers have dropped, both plants' ovaries are turning green and swelling in the same place....so, maybe there is a chance! may have more seeds than we know what to do with if luck is on our side

edit, added a couple pics i just took to show the difference in the flowers. these two in this post are both flava seed parent ovaries. these 2 plants and the two in the op were pollinated within 1 day of each other. weird. but it looks to me like something may be happening. anybody know if this is a sign that the seeds may not be viable (assuming these caps continue to develop, that is) if they are indeed capsules, then it seems super slow

[tmoney]

Originally Posted by Mr.Fakename

If you flask yourself,

oh no, "ain't nobody got time for that!" we're sending them to you

we've discussed our space limits, and we need that space for all the juicy flasks you are gonna send us in 2 years

[Dorchid]

Ha…ok, if you have a surplus, I’d happily take some!

[tmoney]

well ob, some juicy fails for your pleasure and entertainment! all cross attempts with siderea japonica have failed. here is a photo of the last dead cap still hanging on!



the 2 mannii flavas that i was hoping would make it have also failed

but the parishii x flava is still growing, so that so far gives us 75% success with flava as pollen donor and 0% success with flava a seed parent. my new working hypothesis is that the plants are just too young to bear seed but the pollen is good...hopefully



and last an update pic of one of the mannii x flava caps as they are still getting bigger and juicier!

[tmoney]

and last for this morning is a comparison pic for 3 days post pollination of the yang yang supermodel x schilleriana.

first is the 3rd, unpollinated flower 2 days after first opening



this is one of the pollinated flowers 3 day after pollinating.
stamen is swelling nicely and overall both flowers are yellowing, so i am hopeful for this cross as i think it would make some interesting offspring!

[tmoney]

ok, well a couple days later and i'm feeling another juicy fail for ya'lls.

supermodel x schillerianna
maybe i'm wrong, but they are awfully yellow

[tmoney]

weeelllll, a couple more fails on this years list! the yang yang supermodel x schilleriana (x2) both failed. the parishii x mannii flava failed. all the siderea japonica attemps (x3) were toast.

but one more juicy success is the wossner mucke (tetraspis x viridis) x germain vincent (violacea alba x speciosa coffee), shown in this post. but it's crazy how green the pollinated flower has become. quite pretty to me, actually. hopefully it makes it.

so far we are at about 15% success in cross this year and that's just pollination....

[tmoney]

and an update pic, mostly for ourselves and any nerds who like to look at orchid seeds, of the results of this spring/early summer pollination efforts. thanks again to mr. f for a couple of these capsules.

while i hate to say that the little sister cap is now looking questionable after ripping it from its mount, all others are still doing ok.

not pictured is phal doweryensis x mannii (which we are excited about, but is only 20 days in the making, so we will have to see if it makes it when we get back home)

the last juicy fail was our second (and last for this year) capsule on the parishii's. both attempts made it to about 45 days before turning brown. so sad. but, such is life and death!