HYB Pollen transfer

Jan and others

In my own experience and from local advice our T.B.'s can be pollenated
even by those tiny little gladioli thrip. In our drier conditions the
gladioli thrip can arrive out of nowhere. Big rose grower David Ruston of
Renmark can predict the exact conditions when these little blighters are
likely to blow in from the paddocks.
I grow specie gladioli and have all but stopped growing the florist
gladioli as they are so susceptible to thrip. I know when I have them in
the garden because they congregate in numbers along the leaves of the glads
and the T.B.'s where large numbers can be dealt with by drawing the thumb
and forefinger up the leaf.They are usually inside the petals of the blooms
long before I see them.
Another remedy is to apply petroleum jelly to a piece of white or yellow
cloth and hang that in the garden as they are attracted to those colours
and then get stuck. You must have seen them on white washing on the
clothesline if you live in country Australia. That is the only way I can
explain masses of feral pods I get every year and none of it my doing.

Dianne....in Australia where the sun is just rising and catching the Autumn
gold of my Ginkgo tree.
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