Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- Subject: Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- From: p*
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:01:08 -0000
I can't identify your name from your post, but as to your question
about saving pollen, I can tell you what works for me.
I do use plastic baggies. I put a label on the baggie and a
toothpick inside. Then when I want to collect a bloom's pollen, I
write the name of the pollen-giver and the date and pluck the stamen
with tweezers and drop them into the baggie. Then I go to the one
I've chosen as the pod parent and scrape off the pollen in the baggie
with the toothpick and apply that to the stigmatic lip of the hopeful
pod parent.
I've found the baggie technique particularly effective because I
don't run the risk of dropping the stamen on the ground or losing the
pollen from it as I try to rub the lip with the stamen itself. Also,
I find that stamen full of pollen (the only kind I tend to use for
the purpose) deposits pollen on the inside of the baggie as it falls
in, and it's easy to see and scrape pollen off the clear plastic.
I try to use the pollen from one take the same day or the next after
I collect it, to be sure it's still viable. If I want to use it on a
later-bloomer, I refrigerate it. Or if for a matter of weeks, I
freeze the pollen until ready to use.
I find the best pollen is on a bloom that's been open awhile; it
seems to produce increasingly as it ripens. Whereas, the pod parent
should be a newly opened bloom. Same day or next. In fact, you can
gently pry open standards of a new bloom and deposit it on the
stigmatic lips (I always do all three) inside.
Patricia Brooks
in her second year of hybridizing and totally hooked
--- In iris-talk@y..., "araveroisback" <showtime@b...> wrote:
> --- In iris-talk@y..., oneofcultivars@a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/21/2002 6:29:44 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > Autmirislvr@a... writes:
> >
> >
>
> > I
> > save pollen when I can find good pollen.
>
> How do you save pollen? I tried putting the (stamen?)in little
> plastic baggies, but they just got squished and it seems likely
that
> the pollen would mold.
>
> Christian, Ky
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