RE: CULT: pollen count
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- Subject: RE: CULT: pollen count
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:05:38 -0600 (MDT)
I don't know about Mrs. Ira Nelson but fertility varies among irises.
Some are only pod fertile and some are only good pollen parents. It
really depends on the cultivar.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada
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> From: watergarden [SMTP:watergarden@hargray.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 1998 12:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: CULT: pollen count
>
> > Luckily it has good pollen,(looked
> > good), and I wish it had a dozen anthers instead of three.
>
> I was crossing some LA's today but am very much a novice at this.
> When I got to
> Mrs Ira Nelson, I could not seem to get any pollen off the anther. I
> tried
> several anthers of a first-day and a second-day bloom. Is this
> common? I have
> not yet learned to appreciate and differentiate a good parent from a
> poor parent
> but anticipated that the problems would be with pod parent sterility.
>
> Any comments or advice appreciated.
>
> Stephen Hopkins
> coastal South Carolina, USA
> zone 8b
>
>
