Re: Bee Pods
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- Subject: Re: Bee Pods
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:01:15 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, rimat wrote:
> Michael Cook wrote:
> > Rima,
> > A Bee Pod is a seed pod on a plant that was not "put" there by
> > intentional hybridizing. It was the result of some insect, most often a
> > Bee having done the pollination. This is not a case of someone getting
> > stung (like I did Monday.)
> >
> In that case (I really was just tacking on a joke to a serous question)
> then I have lots and lots of bee pods all over the sibs and pseuds.
> What happens next? Do they fall to the ground and grow new plants? I
> thought they multiplied just with offshoots. If you cut off a bee pod
> and put it in a pot, would it grow? Is this a good idea or just let Mom
> Nature do with us as she will? Rima terra@catskill.net upstate ny zone 4
Rima, Someone last year said that the disadvantage of bee pods is
that if you allow them to spread seeds around you don't know which
the parents are for any seedlings which might be a disadvantage if
you are trying to give named irises away. So if you want to save
the pods wait until they are ripe but not more than cracked at the
top and take them off. Or you could put stockings on them until
they ripen and then collect the seeds.
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
Zone 4 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
