Agave Pollen Experiments
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 4:24 pm
Hi folks,
I currently have a fairly big lophantha building up steam but not sure if it will bolt this year or not. The leaves in the center are getting smaller and thinner, lost all of their marginal teeth and there seems to be a bulge forming at their base. I'll post some pics once I have it outside at the weekend.
I just read another post regarding very little on the forum about other succulents. So here is some of my recent activity on the subject of pollen freezing. I'm quite happy to share this stuff if there is the interest.
This doc below details experiments and observations of pollen germination following storage in a domestic freezer. I will update it sometime in the future as more data becomes available together with pics of some hybrids. If someone comes back to me with a way to post it directly on here, I'm happy to do that.
The doc is a pdf of about 7Mb so I have uploaded it to google drive. You should be able to view it online or download it for later viewing. I would be grateful for any feedback or comments from anyone else has dabbled in this.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YI58I ... tJr0UPMb4w
Edit: just changed the link to allow comments
Best regards
Dave
I currently have a fairly big lophantha building up steam but not sure if it will bolt this year or not. The leaves in the center are getting smaller and thinner, lost all of their marginal teeth and there seems to be a bulge forming at their base. I'll post some pics once I have it outside at the weekend.
I just read another post regarding very little on the forum about other succulents. So here is some of my recent activity on the subject of pollen freezing. I'm quite happy to share this stuff if there is the interest.
This doc below details experiments and observations of pollen germination following storage in a domestic freezer. I will update it sometime in the future as more data becomes available together with pics of some hybrids. If someone comes back to me with a way to post it directly on here, I'm happy to do that.
The doc is a pdf of about 7Mb so I have uploaded it to google drive. You should be able to view it online or download it for later viewing. I would be grateful for any feedback or comments from anyone else has dabbled in this.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YI58I ... tJr0UPMb4w
Edit: just changed the link to allow comments
Best regards
Dave