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Its comming along now. My male has ripe pollen sacks so im gonna bag some up soon.
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Posted : 02/06/2011 7:55 pm
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Mike,
Is trachy pollen like some cycad pollen in that it's "viable" for about 2 weeks only?
Kinda like phoning the sperm bank too late 😆 😆
Barb
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Posted : 02/06/2011 9:06 pm
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D R U M R O L L....
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Barb
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Posted : 05/06/2011 12:44 pm
Barb my Trachy looks to be a male after all. A little to much wishfull thinking on my part that it was a female. I`ll cut of one of the flower stalks and send it to you this week. Thanks Mike for your willingness to send it from Chicago.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 06/06/2011 6:56 pm
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Oh hell, John, how many thousand seeds do you want? 😆 😆
Come 'n get 'em (in how long?)
Thanks! Hope the rotating postal strike doesn't hit Kelowna/Vernon.
Yes, thanks Mike and Wes for the pollen offer.
So mine's definitely a female? ? ? ? ?
Barb
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Posted : 06/06/2011 8:44 pm
Great work! Here's hoping for a few thousand trachy seeds 😆
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Posted : 06/06/2011 9:53 pm
Barb with the male flower stalk I`m sending you it will be the fall when the seeds are ready. I could always send it UPS or Fed. Express, very cheap to Vernon. Yours looks like a female after looking at some here of a large male and female side by side. I`ll wrap it in wet paper towels around the base of the cut so it will be fresh when you get it. Cameron will get the first seeds sent out from our batch. I don`t have any seedlings anymore so I`m due for more. 😆
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 06/06/2011 10:08 pm
very cool looking bloom Barb. Great photos...........keep them coming.
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Posted : 06/06/2011 10:39 pm
Barb,
Yours is definitely female, like John said.
Bill
Posted : 07/06/2011 1:36 pm
Grats on the baby girl! You may not have liked the cool spring but it looks like the trachy did!
Cant wait to see the pics of it raining seeds!
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Posted : 07/06/2011 1:50 pm
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Excellent! Thanks folks.
So "John and Barb's Dating Service" is a go...pull the blinds and presto, viable seeds in the Fall 😛
Suspending the pollen branch near the top would let the wind do the work?
Or maybe a little paintbrush.
I recall what H said when I used a brush to pollinate the Citrus..."isn't that a little kinky"? 😐
Whichever mail or courier is fine, I'll send you $ to cover.
I'm up to my eyeballs in palm seedlings (remember the 25+ Foxtails ??? ) + others.
Totally out of space here...
Barb
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Posted : 07/06/2011 1:58 pm
Barb here is a pic of the male pollen I`m sending you for the dating program 😆 .
http://okanaganpalms.multiply.com/photos/album/41/Trachycarpus_fortunei_inflorescence_May_25th_2011#photo=6
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 08/06/2011 2:09 pm
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Sheesh, John, that's enough pollen to get every female Trachy in North America preggie!
Great pic.
Is it OK to hang it in the top part of tree?
Or are you just sending the "dust" 😆 😆 (*blush*)
Barb
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Posted : 08/06/2011 2:22 pm
Barb I would just place it in the crown where it will not fly away. We defintely know they are going to be fresh come this fall.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 08/06/2011 4:11 pm
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fresh come this fall.
Are we talking Sept? Oct? Nov?
Curious whether I'll be wearing a toque inside a palm hut...or earlier?
So many questions...so much to forget 😆
Barb
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Posted : 08/06/2011 4:55 pm
