Its the time of year for flowers on most cacti and I thought I would be good to have a pollen trading thread. This could be especially helpful for people who want to attempt their own Hybrids and also for self sterile plants and other Hybrids etc.

How it will work:

1. It will work much like the classifides section of the local paper: You post in the subject either WANTED if your after a specific pollen or FOR TRADE if you have pollen to trade.

2. Communication should be done through PMs so this thread is kept clean and easy to find the posts.

3 Once your trade has been completed or you no longer want the said item, please endrose the subject line and post CLOSED

Thats it. I'm not sure how needed this will be for this season but I can see it being put to good use in the future.

CLOSED******* - WANTED: Echinopsis/Trichocereus pollen.

I am looking for pollen to x with Harrissia Jusbertii. Echinopsis Eyresii would be perfect but any echinopsis will do. PM me if you have any or will have any soon. The Jusbertii is just developing flower buds now.


No longer needed *****

WANTED Trichocereus pollen - wanting bridgesii if possible, but pach would do, have a Yowie pachanoid that is setting 3-5 flowers, so want to pollinate these. Will split resulting seed if successful.

PM me please

BUMP

Anyone got any bridgesii flowers opening for pollen to be collected in the next week or so?

Excuse the ignorance but can't you just try selfing the Trichocereus so you get pure seed? i'd use something totally unrelated, even an Opuntia or Mammillaria or whatever's available really (except of course anything related to Echinopsis). in fact i'd try multiple things as i usually do hoping for success.

I can try selfing it, and prob will if nothing else presents itself, but aren't they reasonably poor germ rates when self pollinated? Lophs are...

as for others, well, no other flowers have presented the opportunity... only a gymno horstii... and a yowie x random bridge cross could present nice new cacti... i've got 7 flowers on the yowie, so just want to make sure that i get SOME seeds from it, and viable at that...

Lewis and Giligan,

No more Discussion in this thread please. Refer to the thread rules. We need to keep it clean so people can find what they want I know its fine for now but as we get more users it will become problematic.

HN

Seeking Pachanoi,Bridgesii or Peruvianus pollen. Please P.M

OK, so i HAVE an Astrophytum asterias pollen to trade, and i'm also looking for Astrophytum asterias pollen.

Will be wanting Trichocereus bridgesii/pachanoi/peruvianus pollen in a couple of/few weeks.

Will have Copiapoa hypogaea pollen in a few days. Should have Astrophytum capricorne crassipinoides x A. asterias Super Kabuto pollen in a few weeks too.

How long does pollen stay viable for?

Also want/will have in the next few days L. williamsii pollen.