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Post by castanea on Sept 10, 2011 11:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Sept 10, 2011 14:10:30 GMT -5
Interesting site. I'm interested in finding an excellent dark red sunflower, but most seem to be "pollenless". I don't really understand how you can get a pollen-less sunflower. Is it because of a recessive trait? Would planting a pollenless variety be bad if introduced to an otherwise (as far as i know) pollen abundant population of sunflowers?
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 10, 2011 20:19:52 GMT -5
Hey, take a look at these late season sunflowers. One of these actually looks red! Interesting how they change over the years. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 10, 2011 20:21:46 GMT -5
And this one is mostly reddish. Attachments:
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Post by castanea on Sept 12, 2011 18:14:05 GMT -5
In another thread I asked about pollenless sunflowers and apparently they were bred intentionally for the cut flower trade where pollen is just a nuisance.
Can I assume they still produce seeds if they were exposed to a source of pollen?
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Sept 13, 2011 8:21:01 GMT -5
In another thread I asked about pollenless sunflowers and apparently they were bred intentionally for the cut flower trade where pollen is just a nuisance. Can I assume they still produce seeds if they were exposed to a source of pollen? I really couldn't find much info about it on the Internet but yes, from what i did find it seems that all the seeds would be F1's because they will not produce seeds if only planted by themselves (unless they were not really pollen-less to begin with). So yeah, apparently if you plant any pollen-less varieties you will have to plant at least one other variety with pollen. |
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Post by castanea on Sept 24, 2011 19:10:44 GMT -5
Well, they have fast service
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