Re: hybridizing...

 

It's too soon to tell if pods are forming on any of my TB × tectorum crosses, but I continue to make more of them.  Today I was only 5 minutes late for work because I was so busy crossing & tagging.  :-)

"Before The Storm" finally opened up and was just begging for some tectorum alba pollen.  The BTS pollen wasn't ready though for the back cross though.  I also made several crosses (and back-crosses) between tectorum alba × I. flavescens.

I've grown I. flavescens for years and thought it to be sterile.  My earliest crosses with it never took, so I gave up trying.  Then about two years ago, much to my surprise, my (by now extremely) large clump produced bee pods.  Playing with it this morning I noticed how fluffy the pollen was, so anyway I'm not sure why I failed with it earlier on.  It could have been something as inane as trying to make a cross on a hot, dry day.

But this morning was perfect.  Humidity was high, temperatures were cool.  Pollen was fluffy.  Yeah... I'm excited to be making crosses again.  :-)

Dennis in Cincinnati


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