How to Pollinate Succulent Plants
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In order to collect seeds from succulents, pollination is necessary. How do succulent plants pollinate? This article is a real demonstration by flower enthusiasts, which is very valuable for those who want to know how to pollinate succulent plants. Before starting to pollinate, it is necessary to understand some basic knowledge, such as distinguishing between the pistil and the stamen, and knowing that although succulent plants are monoecious, self-pollination does not seem to be successful, so cross-pollination (i.e., two plants flowering at the same time pollinate each other) is required.
Through the following picture, flower enthusiasts first distinguish between the pistil and the stamen!
Everything is ready, now let's start the pollination operation:
1. First, remove the stamen of the flower from this succulent plant to be pollinated, place it in a dish, label it, and make a mark~~
2. Remove the stamen from the flower leaf of another succulent plant that needs to be pollinated, being careful not to touch the pistil, then use the stamen from the other succulent plant's flower that was removed earlier to pollinate the pistil of this plant. Pollinate multiple times for higher success rates.
3. After hybridization, take a paper slip to write down the parent plant information and tie it to the pollinated flower. This step must be done well. Because the flowers open in succession, each flower on the same inflorescence may be hybridized with a different variety. Not writing down the parent plant information will result in the appearance of "unknown" varieties. When writing the information, the variety of the ovary is the female parent written first, and the variety of the pollen is the male parent written second, formatted as "female parent × male parent".
4. After pollination is complete, the remaining task is to wait for the seeds to mature. Many successfully pollinated seed pods will split open, and as they become more mature, they will split wider until the seeds can be seen. Therefore, it is best to place a small box under the mature seed pods to collect seeds that fall out due to the seed pod splitting.
Do you understand the detailed introduction of how to pollinate succulent plants (with illustrations) provided above?