amorphophallus pollen

From: "brian williams" pugturd50 at hotmail.com> on 2001.06.23 at 05:48:46(6854) Hello! Well, it looks like I unintentionally steeped on a lot of toes. First off the pollen was for a friend who has an Amorphophallus Titanium blooming I wanted to try and get it to seed. I also wanted some tips on the best way to pollinate the plant. Now for the hybrid thing. I do love species more and love to keep my plants pure bread. But I do like my few cross breeds that are truly unusual. I don't think anyone even the botanical gardens have all species and no hybrids in their collections or growing somewhere in the greenhouses. I think a few well documented hybrids are good and can satisfy a lot of people wants. I do think their is an over kill of hybrids done manly to spaths and caladium's as well as other aroids and non aroids. Now that talk of konjac and titanium do make people think of a nice easy plant to grow with a large flower and also it could be somewhat hardier as well. These things sound wonderful even to me and I am sure others. It seems the titanium's have reached the point of tissue culture and next is usually hybrids LOL. All I would like to see is good naming and plant tagging on the hybrids. +More I have to like cross breading if not I probably be raising wolves not pugs. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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