Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Fertility, 0 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
This may or may not help in the pollination of brugs or not, but thought it might be helpful in some cases, or somethign to look for and think about.

In Daylilies, again, cuz that mainly where I hybridize most, here is some of my conversation and the pictures all belong to Mary Ann Pruden of LilyHouse Praire who has given permission for them to be used and i have copied her discriptions of the pictures to me from 3 years ago form a discussion we had.

It sems to me brugs have alot of the same problems, especially with long pisitils that brugs have.

The conversation started out because, I went to dab and found a pistil that was spilt and had missing anthers. I had also wanted to know if these split pistils made extra pod chambers and seed.

" Ella, Sometimes the pistil splits--its normally made up of three sections but usually they are kind of fused together. Each pistil corresponds to a chamber in the pod. Sometimes there is a little stigma a couple inches down on the pistil as well. I always pollinate them too and I sometimes end of with four and five chambered pods. I havent kept any records of the fertility of split pistils vs. the unsplit ones. I'm always finding something new to observe as well. This year I have seen many pistils that were not really split but more like twisted together. I dont think the fertility was very high on these at all--but I didnt keep records.

Here's the best pic of that I could find--its on one of my seedlings (kind of hard to see): "

If you look closely in the pic, you cna see the twisted pistil. Til she pointed this out, alot of us never knew such a thing existed and ws giving us pollinating problems.

This first picture is of a twisted pistil. Has anybody looked closely at the brug pistils? On the hard to pollinate ones, is there anything different about them than on the ones who accept pollen easily?