Re: HYB: Ugly Seeds --
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: Ugly Seeds --
  • From: C* <c*@speednetllc.com>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:29:15 -0400
 

Amazingly WONDERFUL, Robert!


I might try that next time ... maybe I would have had more viable seeds if I'd have tried that!

Adam~

On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:08 AM, robert sutton wrote:

 

I tried soemething similar this past year. My dog, a Boxer, managed to snap a pod off of one of my plants, and the stock was mangled, so I took the stalk of a plant that had just finished flowering, and grafted the pod to it, -cut a v shape in both, bound the joint in thin thread to cover the joint. The pod managed to ripen, I harvested the pod, planted the seed, and guess what. I have seedlings from it!!.
Robert

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Cordesview <c*@speednetllc.com> wrote:
Hi all!

This is a post regarding a short conversation blip from Iris-Talk regarding "Beginners: Pods & seeds".

These seeds came from a cross of Haunted Heart X unknown SA ....  
21 days after pollination, the small pod was found on the ground--it had been snapped off the stalk.  

I let the pod ripen on it's own, not on a sunny windowsill, actually.  There was no stalk left attached to the pod, either.  

The photo was taken today, after 6 days of the seeds soaking (with all the other crosses from 2011), and is going into a plastic baggie with sphagnum/peat for 6 - 8 weeks of vernalization.

The seeds smell like dirty socks!  ... or rotten eggs ... whatever you think is worse.  BUT>>> I think those 4 seeds on the left, and that one on the middle right, just *might* sprout for me!  Whoopee!

Adam~






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