How to Pollinate Oriental Lilies
- 1). Select the plants. Decide which ones will be "mothers" and which will be "fathers." You will use a different part of the plant depending on whether you've designated it a mother or a father.
- 2). Remove the anthers from the father flowers. Anthers are the large yellow horizontal growths at the ends of the shoots growing from the middle of the lily; they are coated with pollen. These are the male parts of the plant.
- 3). Find the stigmata on your mother lilies. These are the female parts of the plant, and they excrete a sticky substance when the flower is ready for pollination.
- 4). Rub a cotton swab or paintbrush along the anthers of your father flower to gather the pollen. Then transfer that pollen onto the sticky stigmata of your mother flower.
- 5). Cover the pollinated stigmata with a cap of aluminum foil to protect it from stray pollen, wind and rain.
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