Re: HYB: broken/damaged pods
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: broken/damaged pods
- From: r* s*
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:09:42 -0400
Don,
Never would have thought of that. This is really neat!
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Eaves
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: broken/damaged pods
Hello Folks,
>Two years ago a stalk broke when the pod was half grown, leaving only
>a whisker of the stalk attached. I braced the stalk, now laying on
>the ground, in place and let it develop if it would. It did, and the
>seeds were tiny, but healthy otherwise, and germinated as well as
>others.
A lot of my pods and the pod stems were damaged by cutworms this year. I
repaired the eaten parts with Elmer's glue. It seemed to work very well.
The pods continued to grow and matured at the normal time. There was a
moldy area where the worms had eaten through the pods, but even the seeds
that had the mold looked okay once it was rubbed off. At least one stem was
eaten nearly completely through and it flopped over. I coated the eaten
portion several times and the pod continued to grow and (unbelievably)
reached maturity in a normal time. Pods with larger holes eaten into them
had bits of facial tissue stuffed in the holes, then coated with the glue.
Seemed to confine the damage and closed an entry hole for further insect
invasion. The only seeds that seemed to be affected were those the worms
had gotten anyway.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7, USA
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