Re: HYB: pod-setting technique
- Subject: Re: HYB: pod-setting technique
- From: L* M*
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 19:16:43 -0400
<I ..would like to know the technique(s) that gave you SO MANY pods this
season. I got about as many as I can handle this year, but not anywhere
near the number you got. Would love to know how to do better with my
most important crosses. Patricia Brooks Whidbey Island, WA, zone 8>
My quick answer is that there wasn't a technique, other than sheer
stubborn mule-eared persistence. I bought and used both sides of either
300 or 400 tags (i.e., 600 or 800 attempted crosses, sometimes even used
one tag 3 times). So figure 50 pods out of all those attempts =
slightly more than 1% success rate? I'll post more later
....so maybe you need make 100 attempts at the same cross to ensure
one?.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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