Roosterlorn said: Just try and get pollen from a newly opened or partially opened bud for purity.
Roosterlorn said:SIDE NOTE: ....the development of ethylene gasses begins within hours after light pollination and fertilization has taken place--even with a couple grains of pollen. These gases signal the end of a flowers journey and purpose in life and maturation and death of the flower results.
dellac said:Hence the longevity of pollen-less lily blooms?
Leftwood said:
I haven't heard that pollen-less lilies have longer life. Does that seem to be true? Since most lilies are self infertile, would being pollen-less make a difference?
Now you have me second guessing myself: is L. longiflorum self fertile? I don't think so. So why would remove stamens be beneficial? But.... it is closely related to L. formosanum and L. philippinense, and they are self fertile, and perhaps possessing similar genes makes it "try" to fertilize itself in a more meaningful way, and somehow trigger more ethylene production that way (?). I dunno.
keithp2012 said:If someone pollinated a pollen less Lily with pollen from another what are the chances the offspring will or will not have pollen?
Leftwood said:Della, if you can take some empirical data of your [url=pollehttp://www.northstarlilysociety.com/n-less]pollehttp://www.northstarlilys...[/url] bloom longevity per cultivar, I'd be very interested.
It's hard to believe more hybridizers aren't working with pollen-less lilies that last so long. One would think it would be highly sought after by florists. Here in Minnesota, it's a major project with hybridizer Tim Z. He is trying to breed the trait into larger flowers, so far with some success.
dellac said:Apart from one surviving seedling of my own, they're over for this season, but I'll be more alert to it next year. I took this pic today though; Spring Pink. The blooms are over but the ovaries look as though they may be swelling. Not so! They are like that from the start and stay that way. I tried with a half dozen pollens last year and got not a single seed.
I should add: out of nine, five of these ovaries have more than the normal three parts.