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Default Stevia: monoecious or dioecious?

On Jun 26, 10:58 pm, Billy wrote:
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"Lilah Morgan" wrote:

I have 3 stevia plants, and in my research trying to find info about them,
this is the best I've found so far:http://www.n8ture.com/herbs-stevia.html


"Billy" wrote in message
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Does anyone know, if Stevia is monoecious or dioecious?
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Thank you Lilah. What I'm really trying to find out is can a single
plant produce viable seeds, or do you need two plants? I have one plant
that I started from seed. I guess I'll know by the end of the season
whether I get more seeds or not.

Thanks again.
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- Billy

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and
find out for themselves.
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Hi Billy
Stevia flowers are perfect ( having both stamens and pistil) You can
verify this by looking
carefully at the flowers on your plant and looking for both parts. But
the plants seem
to need cross pollination. So yes, you would need two plants. The
preferred method of
propagation seems to be by cuttings.

this may be helpful (it's where I learned all that above info)

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/p...99/v4-510.html

Emilie
NorCal
where it was 102 today, but I was up at 6800' where it was cooler, but
not very!