How to Hybridize your own Epiphyllum

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Photographs taken by Paul Richter and Gary Brandfellner

The first thing to do is to pollinate the flower.
The pollen is on the stamen.
The pollen should then be placed on the stigma.
Below are 3 ways to pollinate an eppi.

Just rub two flowers together

Rub the stamen of one flower to the stigma of the other

LET NATURE DO ITS THING

IF DONE PROPERLY THE SEED POD WILL BEGIN TO SWELL

IF IT DIDN'T WORK THE FLOWER WILL WITHER AND DIE

THIS IS A RIPE SEED POD

A SEED POD CUT OPEN
SIMILAR TO A KIWI
THE BLACK SPECKS ARE THE SEEDS

YOU SCOOP OUT THE INSIDE OF THE POD

YOU MUSH THE PULP UP
TO RELEASE THE SEEDS

YOU PUT THE SEEDS AND PULP IN WATER
THE BAD SEEDS WILL FLOAT

YOU POUR OFF THE PULP

FILTER THE SEEDS

SEEDS ARE PLACED ON TOP OF THE SOIL
THEN LIGHTLY COVERED WITH SOIL THEN MISTED

PUT COVER OVER THE SEEDS TO KEEP MOIST

GROWN NEAR WINDOW FOR LIGHT AND WARMTH

AT 7 MONTHS

AFTER 7 MONTHS REMOVE THE COVER

CAREFULLY SEPARATE THE PLANTS AND PUT THEM IN 3" PEAT POTS

WHEN THEY HAVE 2 STEMS AT 15 MONTHS YOU PUT THEM IN 4' POTS

21 MONTHS IN THE 4" POTS

AT 21 MONTHS THEY ARE TRANSPLANTED INTO 6" POTS

AT 5 YEARS WAITING FOR A BLOOM

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