Re: Yesterday's blooms
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Yesterday's blooms
- From: C* M*
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 04:38:35 +1000
Hi
Thornbird does occasionally produce pollen and is somewhat pod fertile.
What you will find is the some cv always produce pollen, some sometimes do
and a few never do. Pod fertility can vary with the weather etc also. In
spring when it was very cold and windy I couldn't set a pod on Holy Fire.
By mid summer (very mild) almost everything I put on it took. Hot dry
weather makes pod set difficult also.
I've never managed to sort out the factors affecting pollen production. I do
know that with some cv the pollen is ripe when the flower opens, with others
eg Momentous Occassion the pollen anthers don't open till about a day and a
half after the flower opens.
Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia
zone 8/9
irises@senet.com.au
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From: <doris1434@juno.com>
To: <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:22 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Yesterday's blooms
> Here's a couple good shots of GODSEND and THORNBIRD. I tinkered with the
> color on THORNBIRD and managed to get it a bit closer to its actual
> color, which is a strange pale olive-greenish-yellow. The original
> photograph was a bit more yellowish than the blossom actually is. I also
> discovered that it had NO pollen. Is that characteristic or just "one of
> those things" with this particular plant?
>
> Doris Elevier
> USDA 7b, Sunset 11
> El Paso, TX
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[PHOTO] Yesterday's blooms