Re: [Aroid-l] Monstera fruits - when ripe?

From: Michael Pascall <mickpascall at hotmail.com> on 2009.08.11 at 11:32:53 Just because it has fruit =2C does not mean it has been pollinated . Out of 100 fruits eaten . maybe only 5 will have seeds =2C and then only a few . Michael Pascall=2C >=3B Date: Tue=2C 11 Aug 2009 01:58:22 -0500 >=3B From: samarak@gizmoworks.com >=3B To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >=3B Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Monstera fruits - when ripe? >=3B >=3B Tom=2C >=3B >=3B I have no idea what the pollinator might have been. We didn't notice any >=3B insects on them during flowering=2C but an amazing variety of insects >=3B - and sometimes other wildlife - passes through the greenhouse in the >=3B summer. >=3B >=3B It's flowering again now - I'll try to keep an eye open for potential >=3B pollinators. >=3B >=3B Steve >=3B >=3B >=3B On Sun=2C 9 Aug 2009=2C Tom Croat wrote: >=3B >=3B >=3B Steve: >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B I am kind of amazed that you have fruited a Monstera. What pollinated >=3B >=3B it? The fruits usually take nearly a year to develop on the big one but >=3B >=3B I think that on M. oblique the development time can be only a month or >=3B >=3B so. >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B Tom >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B -----Original Message----- >=3B >=3B From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com >=3B >=3B [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Steve Marak >=3B >=3B Sent: Tuesday=2C August 04=2C 2009 11:11 PM >=3B >=3B To: Aroid list >=3B >=3B Subject: [Aroid-l] Monstera fruits - when ripe? >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B Aroiders=2C >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B I thought this topic had been discussed before on Aroid-L=2C but I can't >=3B >=3B find it - how long does it take Monstera fruits to ripen=2C and how does >=3B >=3B one tell they are ripe? >=3B >=3B >=3B >=3B Last year about this time=2C a Monstera cutting in the greenhouse (which >=3B >=3B had=2C of course=2C gone through into the ground) began flowering. Two >=3B >=3B fruits formed. I thought I remembered from that previous discussion that >=3B >=3B I can't find that it takes quite some time for them to ripen=2C so I >=3B >=3B wasn't concerned until I saw it flowering again the other day and >=3B >=3B realized it's a year later. >=3B >=3B -- Steve Marak >=3B -- samarak@gizmoworks.com >=3B _______________________________________________ >=3B Aroid-L mailing list >=3B Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com >=3B http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l Check the daily blob for the latest on what's happening around the web What goes online=2C stays online--_20ab13dc-6f00-4f8f-8994-4b624b55733c_----===============7879659403336969197==

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