Chamaedorea adscendens male and female plants pollinated

[happypalms]

The first picture is the female flower.  And the last two are male flowers. 
And the last pictures are collecting the male pollen and then pollinating the female flowers. It’s rather easy if you have a supply of pollen, daily I go around collecting male pollen if it’s ready, and hand pollinating the females. The pollen is stored in the refrigerator each day after doing the Chamaedorea rounds. After the adscendens the Metallica plants are ready to start to do the rounds it’s fun, easy and it works for better seed production. 

[Hu Palmeras]

To pollinate, gentlemen. a blessing of cultivation

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10 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

To pollinate, gentlemen. a blessing of cultivation

Yer I will pay that, a good little gadget to have. You wouldn’t need much pollen either. 

[JohnAndSancho]

I'm still waiting on the ones you sent me to pop. I'd love to get my hands on some Metallica but it's absolute hell trying to import anything here now. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Mr. John and Mr. Sancho, what can I say about Chile? They confiscated a large batch of seeds I bought in Spain. It's a shame. I hope the batch of three packets from RPS Germany can enter Chile. Just as I lose, I also win.

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3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I'm still waiting on the ones you sent me to pop. I'd love to get my hands on some Metallica but it's absolute hell trying to import anything here now. 

Patience is a virtue!

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3 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Mr. John and Mr. Sancho, what can I say about Chile? They confiscated a large batch of seeds I bought in Spain. It's a shame. I hope the batch of three packets from RPS Germany can enter Chile. Just as I lose, I also win.

I dislike to say it but that’s the way customs are hit and miss ratio!

[JohnAndSancho]

3 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Mr. John and Mr. Sancho, what can I say about Chile? They confiscated a large batch of seeds I bought in Spain. It's a shame. I hope the batch of three packets from RPS Germany can enter Chile. Just as I lose, I also win.

It's 🐂 💩 man, we're literally trying to keep a lot of these plants from going extinct, we're cleaning the air, we're beautifying the world around us and they act like it's a crime. 

30 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Patience is a virtue!

It's not my strong suit, that's for sure. Bananas and philodendrons are going nuts though, and I dunno if you've checked my thread or my YouTube lately but I'm building a pretty nice setup back here to keep everything growing through the winter. I'm not on your level by any stretch of the imagination, but I've come a long way from a couple lightbulbs in a dark apartment. I'm actually glad my family are hoarders now because I'm throwing everything I can find on eBay. The eBay money gets split between my nursery and the house, and Sancho's GoFundMe is all for him - I'm not touching that money. 

[Phoenikakias]

There are two kinds of pollen in this genus, the powdery one and the sticky one. Your lucky, that adscedens has former kind.

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4 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

There are two kinds of pollen in this genus, the powdery one and the sticky one. Your lucky, that adscedens has former kind.

Actually I thought that about Metallica being sticky and had success with a few seeds, but then I discovered yellow powder pollen withe Metallica. And I had a much better success with the powder, which is much harder to collect than the sticky.