Re: CA frost

They say change and variety is good for us, but this is not the kind of change I would wish on anybody!
My experience with daubing after these events is that fertility varies all over the place. Like Betty learned last year, pollen seems fine, but nothing takes, at least in some crosses. A clue will come from later flowers - if anthers were ok on a cultivar before the freeze, but shriveled in flowers that open after the freeze, it probably won't set pods.
Unfortunately, the only way to find out for sure, is to try to make the cross anyway.
Some seem to be able to recover fertility quickly, others gradually recover. And like you've noticed, it can depend on where the stalk is growing in the clump. Sometimes, the outside stalk will be damaged more, sometimes the other way around.
That's good news that some blooms appear not to have suffered any damage - a clue that they didn't stay below freezing very long. 

Keep us posted on how it goes.

<This is all new to me. Mike Sutton>
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