Re: HYB: pod parents
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: pod parents
  • From: &* G* C* <j*@cox.net>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:30:14 -0400
 

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Thanks, Betty and Donald  --  These postings are valuable for the ideas they pass around.  For several years, I kept my hybridizing materials in a light-weight multi-tray fishing tackle box as I moved around the garden.  As carrying along a garden stool became necessary, I found it a chore to move both it and the tackle box every time I needed to move on to a new flower, a new bed, or another plot several miles away.  Last year, I bought a carpenter's apron (actually a belt with several roomy pouches), and also some multi-chambered clear plastic pill carriers.  I carry a supply of little round stick-on labels to denote which chamber contains which pollen, and I now move around the gardens unencumbered and with everything literally at hand  --  except the 7 X 10" notebooks with the cross records and the garden maps (still trying to figure an easy way to carry those!)
 
-- Griff
 
Griffin's Den
http://www.pilmore.com/griffinsden/default.html
Zone 7 along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, in Virginia
 
  ----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: pod parents

 

<<in a folder for dreaming and reference and
speculation >>
Donald,
 
I started doing this a few years ago.  This year I feel I may have perfected the process, for me.  I bought a canvas garden bag with pockets sewn inside.  It is big enough to carry my camera along with anything else I might need while on daily garden rounds.  It always has a few paint pens, tags, garden labels etc.. It has really cut down on the extra trips and the over all frustration. 
 
When I'm done recording the day's crosses, I download the pictures.  I find I tend to forget what they are if I don't download and name daily.  Thank goodness for digital cameras! 
 
Once bloom season, is over I compile a yearly seedling folder, and then I do contact pages within the folder.  I printed the 2010 contact pages yesterday.  Also, have a large pegboard and can put all of the contact pages on the board and move it around the house, depending on where I want to do my dreaming.  They also fit into folders I have with plastic sleeves, making them even more portable. 
 
Betty W.
KY Zone 6
 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Eaves <donald@eastland.net>
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 10:27 pm
Subject: [iris-photos] HYB: pod parents

 
I'm thinking of putting together photos of the parents that have produced
pods and putting them all in a folder for dreaming and reference and
speculation during the winter months when the seeds have been planted. I'm
sorry to say it may not work as well as I'd hoped. Here these were the only
photos from this year of the parents in question. With all the wind, I
guess I didn't go back and take one of a fully open bloom. Hard to believe
I didn't, but I can't find them if I did. A good argument for assigning
seedling numbers pronto. There's so much going on when they are blooming
fast and furious it's really hard to keep up, so these were the only photos
I had of these. Attempting to create the folder is also going to show up
every mis-step I made in keeping the crosses straight. C'est la vie! I
still managed that better this year than any year in the past. So maybe
this pod from a cross of (AT LAST x DESERT FURY) X ((RAMAYANA x LUELLA DEE)
x (ROSEMOHR x ESTHER, THE QUEEN)) will lose the yellow beard. Maybe not.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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