Alocasia pollination

[Michael Pascall]

Lots of flowers on many of the large plants in my garden . The Alocasia portei has lots , and the amount of pollen produced makes it easy to collect .

I shook a flower over my hand , and the pile looked to be about a teaspoon ! Using my long dirty thumbnail , I cut a hile in the base of a A.x postodora flower

and then just blew the pollen in .. I was surprised to see that it has worked , just checked and I can see green berries forming .

A few weeks previous I pollinated a A.calidoea with portei pollen as well ,, this time using my finger , as there was not as much pollen to play with .

 

I also just potted on the seedlings from the self pollination of the calidora ,, some had nice little tubers . One was a ‘Pixie’s Teardrops form .

I still have another compot to do . Some of the seeds got shared around , I would like to hear how they did . Bet the ones in Darwin are big .

 

 

Michael Pascall