Re: question
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- Subject: Re: question
- From: P* &* Y* T* <t*@dynamite.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:36:50 -0600 (MDT)
At 20:57 8/04/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> You have to beat the Bee. Once a bee or any other pollinating
>>creature visits the flower, it has already been "hybridized." So, you
>have to pollinate it as it opens.
>>Mark A. Cook
>
>So, if you have pollenated the flower and a bee comes along with pollen
>after you (unless you have covered the flower) how do you know which
>pollen fertilised the flower? You can't just assume it was the first
>lot.
>I have pollenated flowers on the next day after opening, but we don't
>seem to have a problem with bees here.
>
>Jan Clark, in Australia
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Jan,
I don't think we have anything big enough to pollinate irises here
(although Bumble Bees are currently spreading throught Tasmania and will
shortly make it to the mainland.
Cheers. Paul Tyerman (Ossie)
