Thank you for the video, how long does it take to be ready to harvest? One of my flowers (after 2 months) is starting to change color, is it a sign that is almost ready?
I've been havening problems with my gymno seed pods,I pollinate the plant and everything is fine for the first days but then suddenly the seed pod starts shriveling up and falling off a couple days latter, I open up the seed pod and it has undeveloped seeds in it, has this ever happened to you ? If so can you explain why this happens and how to prevent this from happening the next time I try to get see pods.
May I know what pollens did you use to crosspollinate your Gymno? If it’s from the plant or a pup from that same plant then it will not be successful. Gymnos are self-sterile, meaning they can’t pollinate themselves. You should use fresh pollens from a different gymno for it to be successful. For the timing in crosspollination, I usually do it on the 2nd day. Making sure that the pollens are powdery (meaning they are ready). Polllinating too early would yield lower success rates due to immature pollens and if it’s too late, (7 days more) pollens are no longer viable so again, lower success rates.
@@srpsecosphere4965 thanks for the fast response, I pollinated my gymnocalycium bruchii with my gymnocalycium parvulum, I collected the pollen from the parvulum from the plant after 4-6 days of the flower opening and stored it in the freezer, the pollen was very dusty. In the next couple of days 3 of my cactuses flowered it would be around 5 flowers in total pollinated all of the flowers and none of them produced seed.
This must be due to the way you stored your pollens. Before placing them inside the freezer, you have to airdry it for a day then place it in a plastic with a dessicant inside it. Desiccant with absorb the moisture. Also you have to take note that making hybrids is hard. Success rates depends on the compatibility of the cactus esp if they are different species.
This looks amazing 😍
It is! Thank you!
Thank you for the video, how long does it take to be ready to harvest? One of my flowers (after 2 months) is starting to change color, is it a sign that is almost ready?
Yung piano music about 0:50 is it Gymnopedie 😅
Yes! 😍
I've been havening problems with my gymno seed pods,I pollinate the plant and everything is fine for the first days but then suddenly the seed pod starts shriveling up and falling off a couple days latter, I open up the seed pod and it has undeveloped seeds in it, has this ever happened to you ? If so can you explain why this happens and how to prevent this from happening the next time I try to get see pods.
May I know what pollens did you use to crosspollinate your Gymno? If it’s from the plant or a pup from that same plant then it will not be successful. Gymnos are self-sterile, meaning they can’t pollinate themselves.
You should use fresh pollens from a different gymno for it to be successful.
For the timing in crosspollination, I usually do it on the 2nd day. Making sure that the pollens are powdery (meaning they are ready). Polllinating too early would yield lower success rates due to immature pollens and if it’s too late, (7 days more) pollens are no longer viable so again, lower success rates.
@@srpsecosphere4965 thanks for the fast response, I pollinated my gymnocalycium bruchii with my gymnocalycium parvulum, I collected the pollen from the parvulum from the plant after 4-6 days of the flower opening and stored it in the freezer, the pollen was very dusty. In the next couple of days 3 of my cactuses flowered it would be around 5 flowers in total pollinated all of the flowers and none of them produced seed.
This must be due to the way you stored your pollens. Before placing them inside the freezer, you have to airdry it for a day then place it in a plastic with a dessicant inside it. Desiccant with absorb the moisture.
Also you have to take note that making hybrids is hard. Success rates depends on the compatibility of the cactus esp if they are different species.