First Euphorbia Flower(s)
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Re: First Euphorbia Flower(s)
Now all you need is a female plant and you can get started producing seeds!
I've always found they tend to mark up with time. It looks really nice, though!
I've always found they tend to mark up with time. It looks really nice, though!
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Re: First Euphorbia Flower(s)
...... and a strong magnifying glass. The flowers are far smaller than I thought they would be.....cactuspip wrote:Now all you need is a female plant and you can get started producing seeds!
It is only in a 6cm pot, so quite young I would think.cactuspip wrote: I've always found they tend to mark up with time. It looks really nice, though!
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Re: First Euphorbia Flower(s)
Your plant is a female, i have several plants of Obesa and Symetrica which i have had for 30 years, i also have
quite afew smaller plants which i have grown from my own seed.
When i find out which plant is a female i place a coloured label in the pot so that i know which is which, i keep
the labels in all the time. When my plants start to produce flowers i remove them from the greenhouse so i can
control the pollination, i hand pollinate the plants by just passing a childs paint brush over the males and then
touch up the female flowers with it.
When the seed pods show i keep an eye on them and when the pods start to turn brown i lay the plants on their
sides with the top section in a plastic pot so when the pods do explode i catch most of the seed.
If i want to produce more plants i sow straight away because i find Euphorbia seed is no good if not fresh.
I have been producing seed this way for years and find it very easy,
Hope this helps.
quite afew smaller plants which i have grown from my own seed.
When i find out which plant is a female i place a coloured label in the pot so that i know which is which, i keep
the labels in all the time. When my plants start to produce flowers i remove them from the greenhouse so i can
control the pollination, i hand pollinate the plants by just passing a childs paint brush over the males and then
touch up the female flowers with it.
When the seed pods show i keep an eye on them and when the pods start to turn brown i lay the plants on their
sides with the top section in a plastic pot so when the pods do explode i catch most of the seed.
If i want to produce more plants i sow straight away because i find Euphorbia seed is no good if not fresh.
I have been producing seed this way for years and find it very easy,
Hope this helps.
Re: First Euphorbia Flower(s)
I had a packet of seeds of Euphorbia obesa from the BCSS seed pool in 2016. (Thanks Chris for your efforts, and from the original supplier (maybe jfabio?) !)
This resulted in 9 seedlings I retain today, six of which are now flowering in 2" pots. Three are more advanced and appear to be female.
Does anyone have info on the proportion of male/female obesas you might expect?
This resulted in 9 seedlings I retain today, six of which are now flowering in 2" pots. Three are more advanced and appear to be female.
Does anyone have info on the proportion of male/female obesas you might expect?
Re: First Euphorbia Flower(s)
according to question i ask on my facebook page. 10 ppl answer my question.
24femal
5 male
1 Hermaphrodite (having both male and female part and both fertile)
the sampling method is totally unscientific.Jude the reliability on your own.
24femal
5 male
1 Hermaphrodite (having both male and female part and both fertile)
the sampling method is totally unscientific.Jude the reliability on your own.
From taiwan. hot humid subtropical island.
Pachypodium grow like weed here.
(not really, but u get the idea hot sunny rainy)
Pachypodium grow like weed here.
(not really, but u get the idea hot sunny rainy)