[aroid-l] help with pollination

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" <mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2004.02.09 at 21:41:24(11128) Hi aroiders: My variegated A. konjac 'Shattered Glass' is flowering for the first time. Even the spathe is variegated rosy red and purple. I wanted to get seed from it by crossing it with other cultivars (using it as the female) but it is about a week ahead of my other clones. Can I self-pollinate it? Can I save pollen just in case I want to cross it as a male? Any instructions on pollination are helpful. To see its image go to http://www.exoticfinches.com/plants/amorphstory.htm Michael Marcotrigiano +More Director, Smith College Botanic Garden _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall

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