Re: HYB: pod-setting technique
- Subject: Re: HYB: pod-setting technique
- From: "pinkirises" p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 03:34:30 -0000
Linda,
Wow! I thought my 280-some crosses were a lot! But my technique was
so much better this year than last that I was suprised so few took.
30-some, though many of those I really wanted.
I wondered whether my not paying attention to that necessary shine on
the pod parent made the difference, although I tried to always make
the cross on the first day of bloom.
I also wondered whether the tiny black mites that appeared on my
blooms this year lessened the potency of the pollen. They didn't
destroy it physically, and I kindof ignored them, but maybe... I
never had such things on my irises before. Anyone know what they are?
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA, zone 8
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
>
> <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?.
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
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