How to hand Pollinate Schlumbergera Cactus Flowers to produce your own Hybrids

[@heatherstephens9295]

Fabulous information as usual Lyn - thanks again 🤗🥰🤗

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you loved the info Heather :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to New Zealand for a fantastic Thursday XXXX

[@emiliasandomierska8977]

Growing your own plants from seeds is the essence of this hobby. I hope you get some unique varieties 🌵🍀

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Growing from seed really is so rewarding and its going to be wonderful to get seeds, thanks so much Emilia for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@morrisparkintheozarks6831]

It's always fun to play the bee!!! I've used several ways to pollinate. Of course the best is the brush!! But I've also done it plant to plant contact, with a small wood pick , picking a flower and pulling away the petals and using it like a brush, picking antlers and using them and even used my little finger to gather grains of pollen and transferring them on the fly so to speak, did this on a few Euphorbias. I love doing this to get new and different plants!!! Thanks for sharing Lyn!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌿🌷🌳🌻🌸🪴🌴🌹🌱🌾🍀💐🏜😃👍

[@desertplantsofavalon]

It really is so much fun to play the Bee haha :-D and thats amazing with the pollination methods you use, its so exciting to make our own hybrids from our own plants, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park for a super Sunday XXXX

[@falzonp1]

Hi Lyn, Love watching you playing the bee lol! .I think its become one of your hobbies hahaha!!! Lovely video! Have a wonderful day my friends Lyn and Hans! Lots of love and happiness!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha Sylvia :-D I really love to play the Bee and pollinate the blooms on these stunners, so happy you loved the pollination video and thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful Friendship and comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Paul lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a brilliant afternoon XXXX

[@Cactimania]

Awesome video, Lyn 😊 Hopefully you get lots of seeds from them. Thank you for sharing with us as always. Have a lovely day and weekend from Edith & myself to you & Hans. Hopefully storm Darragh won't be too bad there 🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜

[@desertplantsofavalon]

It was so much fun to play the Bee with these Schlumbergeras, luckily Storm Darragh was not too bad here thank goodness, I hope the storm was safe for you too, the wind gusts were wild though, and the road outside is flooded but no damage done, thanks so much Daz for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday today XXXX

[@Dragonkller-mg5og]

such beautiful collection of schlumbergeras , I wish I had my own

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you love the collection of Schlumbergeras, they really are amazing cacti to grow, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@oddball-z]

Just never know what you will get when cross pollinating, always an exciting surprise, thanks Lyn 💚🌵

[@desertplantsofavalon]

It really is so much fun to play the Bee haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@BogdanPaval-f4s]

Hope You will get some seeds and grow new gorgeous plants Lyn ❤❤❤

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Awwww thanks so much Bogdan for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@pimpozza]

I just got back from visiting family in England and am looking forward to catching up with your fabulous vids, Lyn.. xoxo ❤

[@pimpozza]

My mum has some wonderful old Schlumbergera in her conservatory! I love the little guys you grew from seed, Lyn.. Much love to you and Hans xx ❤

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic you have been visiting family in England Fiona :-D it must have been wonderful to visit and see your family again, and thats amazing your Mum has some old Schlumbergera, these beauties really are gorgeous bloomers and they are incredible long lived plants, thanks so much Fiona for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Italy for a super Sunday XXXX

[@loisito6189]

When you cross pollinate do the whole plant flower produce a new color. Whole plant or just that stem you pollinate 🥺

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi, if the cross pollination between the two different flowers is a success and seeds develop, the seeds will grow into a new hybrid of a mix between the two different coloured Schlumbergeras, pollinating the red with the pink can produce a deep pink flowering Schlumbergera, growing from seed can take a long time and the seedlings usually have to be at least 4-5 years before they are mature enough to flower and to see what the colour of their flowers turn out to be, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and wishing you a fantastic plant powered Thursday XXXX

[@TravisMullins-p8u]

Did the thanksgiving Christmas hybrid pollination ever make a fruit

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Travis :-D awwww thanks so much for asking, it never produced any fruit which was disappointing, but I have tried again as I have both of them flowering again, I won't give up on creating the Hanukkah Cactus haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@TravisMullins-p8u]

@@desertplantsofavalon thank you to I’d like to try it to but a true Christmas cactus is very rare in my parts

[@desertplantsofavalon]

@@TravisMullins-p8u XXXX 🥰🌵

[@Antlover-ok4hb]

When ever I cross pollinate my Christmas/ Thanksgiving cactus I never get a success so I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So sorry to hear you haven't had any luck cross pollinating them, I hope you will be able to get a successful pollination in the future, it can be a bit hit and miss if it works, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX