RE: HYB: pods
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] HYB: pods
- From: d*@eastland.net
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:25:30 GMT
Hello Dana,
> You have got to be the only person I know
who "patches" pods.
Maybe. But I don't consider it much different than using
an insecticide or stocking for protection. It is sort of
a 'containing the damage' step. I tend tohave pods with AB-
and AB parents. I find that compared with TB x TB cross,
the number of seeds obtained is less and the germination
rate is much less. To my way of thinking that means every
seed I can salvage increases the chances of getting a
plant. Lots of energy expended for what are likely to
resemble inferior TBs.
> Wonder if a
> dab of bondo would have worked?
Try it and see. I find when worms or grasshoppers attack a
pod or plant, they are more likely to return to the same
feasting ground. I'm guessing the damaged tissue attracts
them somehow. The Elmer's glue prevented subsequent
damage, so it acted as a repellent or barrier somehow as
much as repairing the pod. I do think sealing the hole
probably suffocated the worms, so they died and the
remaining chambers of the pod and the balance of the home
chamber then continued to mature with no further damage.
That allowed me to collect more seeds from the pod. Which,
this past spring at least, then pretty much completely
declined to germinate :).
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA - wondering greatly about the urge to
salvage these things. What was an ugly seedling bed has
now been made even uglier by being completely boxed in with
shade cloth. The lantana juice seemed to help, but
watering and rain washed it away and I've used it all. So
rather than go to the trouble to make more, I have opted
for a more permanent, but much less attractive, form of
protection.
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