Any chance of pollinating these Colocasia?

Cincinnati, OH(Zone 6b)

This Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii' has 3 spathes going.
Each came up about 5 days apart.
I have nothing else flowering.
Can they be self pollinated?

Ric

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Louisville, KY

Well I tell people with breeding plants anything is possible. I have had many people tell me certain plants were sterile and later I crossed them. I find some are very hard to breed with it seems that the female part of some flowers are missing something that makes them sterile but as soon as I say that one odd mutated form gets a seed. So you can try it I personally have had no luck with this form. But maybe I was not getting the pollen on it at the right time or the pollen was not good? Lots of factors to take in. Good luck let me know if it takes.

Cincinnati, OH(Zone 6b)

Thanks I'll give it a shot.
I get probably a dozen flowers a year off this plant.
This is the first time I've had multiple flowers on.

It runs a bit so I'll have plants but seeds...........

I noticed this morning I've a macro just starting to spathe right next to it...............
Ric

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