I have done this with hippeastrum but you need to remember that the third of the stigma you pollinate does not correspond to the third of the capsule (cavity) that you open up. The seeds in each cavity are interlaced with those from two adjacent segments. In other genera like crinums it can be more difficult to separate them. It seemed successful in hippeastrum. Tim On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:26 AM Michael Mace via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Magnificent post, Leo! Thank you. > > I'm curious about one thing. You wrote... > > >Monocots, including garlic, and almost all the plants we like to talk > about > here, normally have three carpels per flower. > > Do you know if those three carpels are independent of each other? In other > words, if I pollinate the stigmas on one carpel and don't pollinate the > others, will I get a pod with seeds in one third of it, or does the pollen > fertilize all three carpels? > > I ask because occasionally I'll have a very rare flower and I'd like to > cross several things on it. If I can pollinate each carpel separately that > raises some interesting possibilities... > > Thanks, > > Mike > San Jose, CA > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…