The flower of death
I am a little sad. My 2 beautiful red hen an chicks have both been triggered after the heavy rain and heat, and are about to flower (and then no more). I have just gotten 1 offspring 😔
But! Do anyone know if you can get seeds from these guys? I imagine that they might be able to pollinate each other if that is needed?
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But! Do anyone know if you can get seeds from these guys? I imagine that they might be able to pollinate each other if that is needed?
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I had a book abt propagation bfr, it was an echeveria but might be similar?
Use a painbrush to dust some pollen onto an envelope. Hold your breath, the pollen is quite fine. Use the brush to paint the other flower with the pollen.
There might be more complications than this ie. different times at which male and female parts are receptive. Just make sure the pollen stays dry. If you need to store the pollen, they'll last in the freezer. Wrap up the pollen and store in plastic bag with a silicon moisture absorber that comes with vitamin bottles, and put in the freezer. It'll be good for quite a long time
Use a painbrush to dust some pollen onto an envelope. Hold your breath, the pollen is quite fine. Use the brush to paint the other flower with the pollen.
There might be more complications than this ie. different times at which male and female parts are receptive. Just make sure the pollen stays dry. If you need to store the pollen, they'll last in the freezer. Wrap up the pollen and store in plastic bag with a silicon moisture absorber that comes with vitamin bottles, and put in the freezer. It'll be good for quite a long time
@MockingJay Your hens and chicks pant looks pretty crowded in that arrangement so it must be hard to see because, before the mother plant (the "hen") flowers and dies, it produces numerous offsets (or "chicks") around itself. Those give you a new plant so to speak. Or after flowering, the mother plant will produce seeds in seed pods. And those can be used to grow new plants, although the offspring are likely to be easier to grow! Hope this helps, Happy Growing!!
@Ms.Persnickety oh it is easy enough to see now in summer because of the different colors. I arranged those in the second pic just last year (5 different pcs) and one of them is obviously eager to spread, while the others have just a few or none 😅.. The ones in the first pic I arranged just a few weeks ago, one of them have just started with chicks but not the others, and not the one that are about to flower. So they obviously don't always produce chicks before flowering if they get triggered. Which is why I am a little sad as I hoped for more chicks before they flowered😄 But hoping to get some seeds🤞
@Ms.Persnickety This is from a few weeks ago before I removed some of them in hopes on getting some chicks one the one that doesn't have any (the one on top). The red one that is about to flower has 1. Tried to show which chicks belongs to which hen😄
@Charli3Plant I will try to do that😊