Now is the time for me to begin monitoring select clones of local Cypripedium acaule for bloom, pollen collection, and hybridization. In the past i have sent out pods for flasking of acaule x formosanum (Promises), acaule x Ulla Silkens, acaule x pubescens and the reverse, and Philipp x acaule. The crosses made on acaule were on my cultivated plants, but pollen used on Philipp and pubescens were from very robust spectacular wild plants where they can be locally abundant. Deer predation obliterated pods being produced on the wild plants, including acaule x reginae, last year.

This year I plan to be extra vigilant in protecting developing pods but have only Inge and Gisela as new blooms. I can send out pollen of select acaule to anyone who desires it. I am especially intrigued with the vegetative and ecological similarities between acaule and some of the Trigonopedia. These i think yould make excellent crosses. Cypripedium acaule is rather easy to maintain in raised beds of sand. The hybrids with Trigonopedium types (margaritaceum, lichiangense, and bardolphianium for example) may be easier to cultivate.

Please send me pollen soon if you can.

Thank you,
Bonaventure Magrys

Wow did you have succes with the seeds from last year, are you having seedlings.
And mybee interested to give a acaule lover some.

I have acaule, but they are just started to grow. And I have a Prof. Robatsch, but she is still sleeping.
I will have next week a very big flavum flowering, and just a nice red franchetii flowering, if you want we could exchange pollen of them.
Maybee next week I will have pollen of debile, if she will open. Just a few days I think. I think it can be very interesting too. Because this early debile grows in the near of one of my acaule.

OK Christoph, send me your home mailing address to bonaventure@optonline.net

I am in New Jersey, USA, and acaules are just starting to bud. When flowers fully open there are some superior varieties easily picked out and I can remove the pollinia and send with a little dessicant in a pouch to you (or it will rot.) I remove all pollen from flowers I crossbreed and first check the stigma to be sure there is no pollen yet there already. This is done more easily by removing the lip also, which in addition ensures no further pollinators can come along.

So far I have received back about 12 seedlings each of my remake of Promises and 12 of Ulla Silkens x acaule. Half of each died soon thereafter but the rest unfurled tiny leaves and I have 1 each in pot stored in the refridgerator now sprouting. I don't see the garden ones. I'm hoping to start with mature plants someday as I have better luck with those and have the seed sower hold on to the rest for compensation.
If you know a good flasker in your area I can send you the whole green pod.

I'm at:

130 Hilltop Blvd
Cliffwood Beach, NJ 07735-6001
USA

Bonaventure

you should have recived an email.

I never before heard the word dessicant.

Can you help me it is not in my books, and on my translating help