Re: HYB: Freezing pollen
- Subject: Re: HYB: Freezing pollen
- From: H*
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:11:08 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: <lmmunro@hotmail.com>
> Talking about freezing stuff, how about if you wanted to cross an
> early bloomer with a late one? Wonder if one could freeze pollen?
> Take it from the early one, save it and pollinate the late one.
> Has anyone ever tried?
Laetitia,
Do it all the time. It's the only way to try some of the crosses I'm after.
I dry the pollen out of the sun for a few days then pop it into a film
canister with a dessicant and into the freezer it goes. It'll keep for at
least a year so very late bloomers can be crossed onto the early bloomers as
well.
Christy
Skip & Christy Hensler
THE ROCK GARDEN
Newport, WA
http://www.povn.com/rock/
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