Re: [Aroid-l] Anthurium superbum

From: "Denis Rotolante" <denis at skg.com> on 2007.06.25 at 14:00:48(15854) It's my experience that A. superbum is extremely discreet about its sexual phases, I could never see the pollen or fluid either. We used to depend on the insects to pollinate our plants as we assumed they could tell by smell when the inflorescences were fertile. In more recent days I have actually gone out to the plants and run my fingers up and down the spadices of the various phases hoping the this process would transfersome the invisible pollen to the not so apparent stigmatic fluid of the flowers in the receptive mood. Even though this method sounds unscientific and really rather dorky, it works if you have time to go out and run your fingers over them on a regular basis. At least the insects have a good reason to be there. Denis +More Silver Krome Gardens Homestead Fl -----Original Message----- [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of George Yao Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:37 AM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Re: Anthurium superbum Windy, I'm fine, thank you. :-) And, it looks like you are able to do what others find hard! The reason I was curious was because recently I had a discussion with a friend about his A. superbum. ( That should be A. super-bum, Ted. Never saw the difference before. Haha...) We were looking at his super-bum which had a bloom laden with pollen, so I told him to save the pollen to pollinate the next bloom. He told me he had never seen a receptive one before, as in no glistening droplets of liquid on the spadix. We discussed the possible reasons, but not being experts, came to no conclusion. Maybe you, Windy, and other experts can enlighten us? George At 6/23/2007 04:54 AM, you wrote: >Hi George, > >How are you doing. >All my seedlings are seed grown, with seed from my plants. >I don't do tissue culture. > >Aloha, Windy > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "George Yao" >To: "Discussion of aroids" >Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:18 PM >Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Re: Anthurium superbum > > >>Windy, >> >>Just curious. Are those from seed or tissue-culture? >> >>George Yao >>Metro-Manila >>Philippines >> >>At 6/21/2007 04:10 AM, you wrote: >> >>> >>>Enid, >>>Here's mine! Still small, but growing strong. >>>Windy >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Aroid-l mailing list >>>Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >>>http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l >>> >>> >>> >>>No virus found in this incoming message. >>>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>>Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/854 - Release Date: >>>6/19/2007 1:12 PM >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this outgoing message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: >>269.9.1/854 - Release Date: 6/19/2007 1:12 PM >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Aroid-l mailing list >>Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >>http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > >_______________________________________________ >Aroid-l mailing list >Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: >269.9.6/862 - Release Date: 6/22/2007 3:04 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.6/862 - Release Date: 6/22/2007 3:04 PM _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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