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Monday, June 19, 2023
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Colorado
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Megabloom are crazy mutant flowers and a lot of times are not built to self pollinate very well. In the photo is a megabloom that is on the same plant at the regular bloom in the previous photo. You can see how the anther cones are weird shaped and not enclosing the stigma. I think this is why we have problems getting megablooms to pollinate without a lot of help. You need the pollen from the anther cones to get to the tip of the stigma. As in this photo, if the bloom is sticking out at any angle except straight down the pollen is going to fall down and never reach the tip of the stigma. Only wind or insects can get it blowing around. The other thing I noticed is the early first truss megas open first before any other flowers. This means unless the mega produces a lot of it's own pollen it's not going to get pollinated. I've also noticed during my hand pollinating that a lot of megas don't produce much pollen if any at all. This is probably due to the mutated way they grow. I love observing and watching how this stuff works it's fascinating.
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