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Post by lloyd on Jul 31, 2015 13:23:26 GMT -5
My Miranda sitting outside in the partial sun, is starting a flower spike.
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Post by roraima on Jul 31, 2015 13:45:57 GMT -5
Congrats Lloyd! Let us know if it's a girl or a boy.
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Post by snapperhead51 on Jul 31, 2015 18:34:52 GMT -5
male or female
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Post by roraima on Jul 31, 2015 19:43:49 GMT -5
Dioecious affinity
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Post by H2O on Jul 31, 2015 21:11:47 GMT -5
I would bet 50 bucks that it's male, every one I've bought has flowered male and everyone I know has only ever flowered male.
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Post by shoggoths on Jul 31, 2015 21:37:54 GMT -5
I would bet 50 bucks that it's male, every one I've bought has flowered male and everyone I know has only ever flowered male. I'm one of them too.
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Post by bradt on Jul 31, 2015 23:49:02 GMT -5
mines is in spike to and it is a male as well
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Post by snapperhead51 on Aug 1, 2015 20:12:52 GMT -5
wonder if has been prosperously bred that way ??
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Post by lloyd on Aug 1, 2015 20:46:32 GMT -5
Probably a lot are one clone. I wonder if most wild neps are male.
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Post by H2O on Aug 1, 2015 21:23:09 GMT -5
There are loads of theories about why there are so many male Neps in cultivation.
I read an article about how it might be possible that male Nepenthes tend to take off and grow faster then the female Nepenthes. When nuseries are TCing plants for mass production they look for the most vigorous clones out of the batch, which almost always turn out to be male.
Seed grown plants seem to have a much better chance of being female. It would be cool if someone was able to grow out 100 seedlings of a couple species and see what they flowered as and what grew the fastest.
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Post by roraima on Aug 1, 2015 21:51:08 GMT -5
The sex-related differences in reproductive allocation, growth, defense, herbivory, etc. have been studies in a number of dioecious angiosperm species (I'm unaware of any formal investigation in Nepenthes). Most studies to my knowledge have found that the allocation of resource to reproduction is more costly to female plants than to males. More vigorous and larger is not always better though...a study of neotropical palms showed that although female plants grow less than male plants, they invest more in defenses. They produce tougher leaves, with higher concentraion of defensive phenolic compounds within. I've long thought that the rush to aquire the most vigorous Nepenthes seedlings of the bunch is overrated...here's to the ladies
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Post by troutddicted on Aug 13, 2015 20:00:43 GMT -5
Evolution never fails to impress! Wicked info roraima
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Post by lloyd on Aug 28, 2015 8:23:46 GMT -5
It's a boy.
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Post by snapperhead51 on Aug 28, 2015 9:16:22 GMT -5
yes seen so many plants in the wild, from just casual observations has been defiantly more male plants than female from my view point and visual observation for sure . , in my G/h I have been lucky over the many years to have a very higher than the norm of female plants that's for sure . I do consider my self lucky in that regard most definitely . have a female N.boshiana and N.veitchii flowering right now as well as N. vent x aristo i pollinated with max x mira ,. have a few others to just for get what just now its late at night here . N.veitchii vent x aristo from a cutting actually another cutting all ready pollinated and swelling up
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Post by lloyd on Aug 28, 2015 10:13:38 GMT -5
Is it worth collecting the pollen? How do you collect/store it?
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