How to pollinate Cactus flowers - Trichocereus / Echinopsis
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That's an interesting process...pollinating cactus flowers! Love it! Have a lovely afternoon Lyn and Hans! Sending you lots of love!
haha I love playing the Bee pollinating the flowers :-D thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a terrific afternoon XXXX
That looks like a very delicate operation! Beautifully explained too. Thank you for sharing.
Gardening at Douentza Thanks so much Rachel for your lovely comment and for watching :-) it will be exciting to see if they form into fruit pods with seed :-) Sending you an abundance of love from Waterford to Wexford for a FAB Sunday ahead today XXXX
Thank you for sharing! Always helpful and wonderful tips. And you have an amazing garden! Cheers and love from California Lass!!
That was a delicate operation . Thanks for sharing
Patrick Meehan Thanks so much Patrick for your lovely comment and for watching :-) It was good fun playing the bee haha! and it will be wonderful to see if this is successful this time and I get fruit and seeds :-) Sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle for a magnificent week ahead XXXXXX
Wow that is one huge flower
Its a big beauty haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and have a wonderful weekend XXXX
Thanks for the tip, I am hoping to get more seeds out of my flowering cacti. Cheers, Keith in AZ
Groovyman 1968 Thanks so much Keith :-) The cross pollination was a success and I now have seed pods already forming :-) I will do an update vid in a few days :-) Thanks so much for watching and sending an abundance of love and flowers from across the pond for a magical day today XXXXXX
You're such an amazing person. You seem so down to earth and I love how interested you are in nature! By far one of my favorite accounts. Keep up the good work! Sending love from the east coast of the United States xx
Tyler Capanna Thank you so much Tyler for your wonderful kind words, so happy that you are enjoying the videos :-) Sending you an abundance of love and happiness for a fantastic Sunday today XXXXX
Thanks! I was about to cut off the stigma to save it for the others when they bloom 😂💀
Thanks so much Danielle for watching and your wonderful comment and have a fantastic plant powered Tuesday XXXX
Fabulous job! Employ a Bee whenever possible, haha! Thanks
***** haha! I could do with a good few of those wonderful Bees from yours to help pollinate these flowers haha! :-) the funny thing is we get bees coming in through the windows but they land on everything but the flowers haha! they are dozy ones :-) The good news is the pollination has been a success and fruit pods are already starting to form :-) Thanks so much for watching Bob and have a FANTASTIC evening ahead XXXXX
awesome tutorial Lyn ! Wait until you get the orchid bug and want to make your own cross lol
Growing Things haha! thats so true :-) I love the thought of producing lots more plants :-) funny thing is you were talking about Bat plants in your latest vid and these flowers are normally pollinated by Bats haha! Thanks so much for watching Chris and have a BRILLIANT afternoon and week ahead XXXXX
Good mornings from California, here in the states. I just cross pollinated some cacti of mine, but after watching some of your videos, i learned they need to be in the same genus and i highly doubt mine are. Lol i was looking for my question here in a couple of your video comments , so i wouldn't have to pester you but i did not see it. If my cross pollination was a success, and a pulpus pod forms, when do you harvest the seed?? Or know when it is ready? Im a little upset now because i did not self pollinate my other cacti in bloom, thinking it would just happen on its own. Mine are outside, im not sure if bats are even able to see them. Do bees help pollinate them as well as bats?? Thank you😊
Hi Holly :-D thats wonderful you have been cross pollinating your cacti, and its still possible that your pollinations will be a success as some cacti genus can hybrid between other genus that are similar, I used to think that they could only be cross pollinated by the same genus exactly, but I have heard from other growers that they have successfully cross pollinated cacti between similar genus, e.g Lobivia and Echinopsis, the good news is Bees can pollinate the flowers as well as bats and small birds especially tiny Hummingbirds can also pollinate flowers, the seed pods can take 6 -12 weeks to develop and some can take up to a year, but most Cactus seed pods develop within 6-12 weeks, the fleshy types of seed pods usually feel very soft and squishy and will crack open with the seeds, but other types of cacti seed pods will be dry and crack the pods open and you will be able to see all the tiny seeds inside, good luck with the pollination, and thanks so much Holly for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to California for a fantastic new week XXXX
Why would you polinate a cactus? And lovely interesting video!
Peter Mc Guinness Thanks so much Peter for your lovely comment and question :-) Some cacti are self pollinating and can easily produce a lot of their own seeds, but this big guys are pollinated by Bats as well as Bees, and although I do get a few bees come into the house, I never get any Bats haha! the flowers only last a few hours so the chances of getting them to pollinate naturally by a bee especially in the house is rare LOL! so by giving it a helping hand it encourages its chances of setting fruit and forming seeds, it doesn't always guarantee success though, but fingers crossed it will :-) Thanks so much for watching Peter and have a FANTASTIC evening ahead XXXX
+Issac Marshall :-) Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment :-) Sending you an abundance of love from Ireland XXXX
***** Hi Stan :-) With each flower that gets pollinated and forms into a seed pod, you could get hundreds of seeds from each one, anything from around 250-500 seeds :-) XXXX
wow amazing!!
+Art Hur Thanks so much for your lovely comment and for watching :-) Sending you much love from Ireland for a wonderful day ahead XXXXXX ,3
good info
drvshaft drew Thanks so much for watching :-) Sending you an abundance of love and happy growing for a wonderful Sunday XXXX
Normal pollinater's are bats? I love bats. Poor things get such a bad rap.
I found seeds on ebay. Do they take to growing very easy?.
Bret
Have an amazing Sunday. We have been having crazy weather. But today will be 80 and sunny. Happy happy
Bret Furgason Thanks so much Bret for your lovely comment and for watching :-) I agree Bats are cute, and a lot of them are only tiny, growing these plants from seed should be easy, and will be so rewarding to see them grow from seeds, it will be interesting to see if the pollination works out with these flowers :-) Sending you tons of love for a magical Sunday ahead XXXXX
Do you have to Pollinate Opuntia families of cacti? Or are they self pollinators? Mine is beginning to flower and my first flowerto bloom, after 2 days closed and fell off a few days later. No fruit has begun to grow.
Thank you.
Hi Mikey :-) I am pretty sure that most varities of Opuntia are self pollinating as last year I had my Opuntia stricta flower and it formed a fruit and none of my other Opuntia's were flowering at the same time, but I am not sure if all Opuntias are self pollianting or not, thanks so much for watching and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX
Hi Lyn, I am very new to all this and was wondering what is the purpose of cross pollinating?? Sorry for my ignorance :-O
Buzzardgirl13 Thanks so much for watching and your lovely question :-) Some cacti can self pollinate themselves quite easily, and the flowers last for a few days where the chances of bees pollinating them is high, but with some cacti like these big fellas, the flowers only last a few hours and because they are mostly pollinated by bats at nightime, its unlikely i will be getting any bats in the house haha! at least I hope not anyway LOL! so by cross pollinating them myself it encourages the chances of the flowers setting fruit and seeds, although it doesn't guarantee it working, it does encourage the chances, so it will be exciting to see if it works this time and i get fruit and seeds :-) Sending tons of love and happiness for a magical evening and week ahead XXXXX
Hello :)
my name is Michele and I'm 24 from Italy!
I just met you, and your videos in this period, and this weekend I went to buy my first succulent, my first cactus, I found out after it is a "mammillaria red irish head", I have read that some cacti do not produce fruit if pollinated by yourself, I'm following your videos to get a good bloom of my cactus, but if and when they will make the flowers, you know if can I use the same technique to show in this video of self-pollination?
or for mammillaria red irish head is different?
is it needed another plant of the same species?
thank you a lot byeeeee :)
Hi Michele :-) thank you so much for your wonderful comment and so happy that you found my channel :-) thats wonderful news that you have bought your first cactus and the Mammillaria red Irish head is a beauty to grow :-) With pollinating Mammillaria cacti you usually need to cross pollinate them with another Mammillaria of the same species to get seeds, although I think there are a few that may be self pollinating, but Mammillaria red headed Irishman needs to be cross pollinated with another Mammillaria :-) hope this helps and thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and happy growing from right across the emerald Isle and have a BRILLIANT week XXXXX
that is funny Lyn nannananana Bat plant!!!
Growing Things hahahahahaha! XXXXXX
knew you would enjoy that one
thank you so much
i do the same way but it is not working i do not know why ?!
waiting updates
mohannad al madanie Thank you so much Mohannad for your lovely comment and for watching :-) So sorry to hear that this has not worked for you, it is not always successful, and i am not sure if I will get fruit and seeds but it helps to encourage the flowers to get pollinated :-) Good luck with pollinating your flowers and keep trying, and i will keep you updated :-) Sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXX
can 2 flowers from same plant be crossed pollinated with each other?
Hi :-D yes some of the species can be pollinated with flowers on the same plant, but mot of the hybrids do need to be crossed with another in the genus to pollinate, it can be a bit hit and miss with the different types of Echinopsis/ Trichocereus but I would definitely give it a go and see, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a sunny Sunday XXXX
If only ONE of your cacti is in bloom you can collect the pollen in a "capsule" and store it in the freezer until the second plant is in bloom.
(what is a capsule ? : www.lga.fr/gelules-vides-classiques-taille-rouge-opaque_p1009.html )
you can buy them at your local pharmacy, although you might have to explain the pharmacist why you need those capsules : quite logical, to store pollen from a cactus !
i have tried this in the past and it worked. you can store it for several weeks. collect enough pollen, however.
jay0kew Thank you so much for that brilliant info :-) thats so great to know, as its not often you get two of the same plants flowering at the same time, the capsules sound like such a great way to store the pollen :-) Thanks for sharing this with me, and will definitely try this with my others in the future :-) Thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic evening XXXXXX
In this video I show you how to pollinate your cactus flowers the easy way. XXXXX