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[jimlard]

Hello, I have a Sarracenia 'Excellens' which is in flower. I would like to brush the pollen from the flower on to the stamin(?) of the same flower. Does this guarantee that the seeds will be Sarracenia 'Excellens'? There are no other Sarracenia in flower in my meager collection.
I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand times before.
Many thanks
Jim

[ada]

Any resulting seeds/seedlings should be referred to as s.excellens selfed.Then you know the cross was obtained from a single plant and not two different s.excellens clones.If you had two different excellens clones, it would be s.excellens x s.excellens
Only a  s.leucophylla x s.minor  or vice versa can be referred to as s.excellens
STIGMA is the word you were looking for.

just had a thought,could s.excellens x s.excellens be s.excellens²?

ada

[James O'Neill]

Hi Jim
first, let's get familiar with anatomy. You want to take pollen, which is released from the anthers (which are part of the stamens) and brush it onto the 5 stigmas, which, together with the style (the big umbrella shaped object) form the carpel. The stigmas are the little protuberences facing inwards on each corner of the style.
Offspring can be named S. x excellens selfed. They may form a mishmash of different features of S. leucophylla and S. minor. Some may look similar to the parent plant, some may look more like minor and some may look like leucophylla, with more extremes than a simple minor x leucophylla crossing.

[jimlard]

Thank you for your replies. I have brushed pollen onto the stigmas now, I shall repeat that tomorrow and then see if I get seeds produced.
Thank you once again  

[Mujician]

I too am very interested in trying to get seeds from CPs. So to cross pollinate, would it be as simple as brushing pollen from one plant to another? Also, how do I know when and how to collect seed? Sorry to hijack the thread, but I hope the resulting answers will help the OP.

[Alexis]

The seed pod will turn brown and crack open when the seeds are ready. This is usually September - November.

[Daniel G]

Here's a thread from a different forum going into much detail :)

http://www.flytrapca...uded-t7650.html

[jimlard]

Daniel G, on 28 June 2012 - 12:22 PM, said:

Here's a thread from a different forum going into much detail :)

http://www.flytrapca...uded-t7650.html

Thanks Daniel