You go Dennis. I try not sure what I'm doing but if we have fun doing, what's the harm.
Dennis Kramb <d*@badbear.com> wrote:
>It's too soon to tell if pods are forming on any of my TB Ã 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 à 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
