Jim Little's book oPlumeria has pix and discusses how to do it. I haven't tried it myself.

I do have Jim Little's book, but I course now that I'm looking for it I can't seem to find it, lol. I'll have to check at my parents house this weekend and read that section again. For some reason I don't remember the book being very detailed on how you hand pollinate, then again I'm more of a visual learner.

I did find this vid on YouTube last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuao8Rf54Xc It's from the Valley of the Sum plumeria group in AZ. They make it look very easy. Has anyone their method?

I also read something about water pollination or "water polli". From what I gather you collect the anters, with pollen, and put them into a syringe. Then mix in some water till you get a pollen slury. After that you just inject the slury into whatever flowers you want to pollinate. Has anyone ever heard of this method before?

~Jen

That "water polli" method sounds like a great idea! Thanks for mentioning it Jen, I've never heard if it until now!
I'd like to play with pollination too since I currently have lots of blooming plants and have a few interesting crosses in mind!

Hi Jen,

Sounds like a great experiment!!! I wish we lived close to one another so we could try this!!

Good luck...Ill look in some of my books as well for you!!!

Take care!!!

Laura in VB