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Double mothers

16 years ago

Life is full of surprises. I never found a Stigma in a double flower and have been crossing with single mother recipients only.

To my surprise this morning I found, two healthy pods on one of my doubles.

The first scape has pods and the second flowers.

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This bulb has two flowers on the scape. One is double and other a single. I feel pollinating this singles with a doubles pollen will produce more doubles.

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The three white tips in the centre on this double could be stigma. I am also dusting pollen on it along with its single sister having clear stigma.

Careful look at other double flowers also show distorted suspicious looking possible stigmas. There is no harm in pollinating them and see what happens.

The bifurcating stigma in the centre of the first and the long filament going down to left lower corner in the second may be active stigmas.

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