Re: HYB: broken/damaged pods

Wow.  Elmer's glue?!  The will to live in irises (and creativity in 
growers!) seems to take them through most anything -- luckily, if my 
experience continues to encounter these accidents.  Most of these 
solutions seem to involve pods still attached to their stems though.  
Two of mine were knocked off the stems while still green and fat.  
I've put them in their cups and set them on the sunny windowsill.  
Are they likely to continue maturing and yield germinatable seeds?

Patricia Brooks



-- In iris-talk@y..., "robert stewart" <crusher4@w...> wrote:
> Don,
> 
> Never would have thought of that.  This is really neat!
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Donald Eaves 
>   To: iris-talk@y... 
>   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@e...
>   Texas Zone 7, USA
> 
> 
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