Michele said
From what I have seen looking at a pistil, it appears to be in 3 sections to it.
Honestly I have no clue. I would imagine the hairs help hold the pollen in place for the stigmatic fluid or help it move down the style. You could put more than one pollen on a stigma, but why would you want to. I would imagine the first pollen that was dabbed would be the pollen that gets in and makes it to the ovary. If more than one pollen did actually get to the ovary you wouldn't have a clue as to which seeds each pollen went to. Too much confusion there.
I have heard of a person that would mix all of the pollen from lots of daylilies and pollinate with the mixture. AGAIN, you have no clue as to who the pollen parent actually is.
You do have three sections to a normal pistil, therefore there sections to a normal seed pod. It you have no seed in one section of the seed pod that means the pollen did not make it down one section of the pistil for some reason. You will see this a lot more in the tets than you do in the dips, you also get lot more seed from dip pods. I have done lot more dip ufs this year than the last several years and average 15-20 seed in a dip pod compared to 4-8 in a tet pod. Fred
This was the first bloom on a dip seedling yesterday.
LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X LILLIAN'S SWEET THANG 7" 10 month
