Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- Subject: Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- From: p*
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:27:06 -0000
Bill,
What is the composition of the tags on your string tags? Heavy paper
or cardboard? I used poster board last year and found it decomposed
badly and the 'permanent' ink faded nearly completely by harvest
time. I recorded all crosses in the small book I carry with me, but
it's easy to lose track of the pod-parent bloom if the label becomes
unreadable.
This year, I took a tip from someone on this list and cut tags from
the clear plastic of milk gallon containers. I consecutively
numbered the tags, number only, with a Bic marker and covered it with
transparent tape, punched a hole in the tag, and attached a string.
Then when I made a cross, I looped the (soft) string around the bloom
and recorded the cross in my book next to the number of the tag.
Much easier than trying to record all the info on the tag itself like
I did last year. So far, the numbers are still clear and protected.
Thanks to that tipster!
Patricia Brooks
--- In iris-talk@y..., oneofcultivars@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/21/2002 9:43:12 AM Central Daylight Time,
> showtime@b... writes:
>
>
> > How exacticakily are you tagging individual blooms? I might need
> > to use that method myself.
> >
>
> This is what I do. I use 1 3/4" x 1 3/32" string tags purchased
from the
> office supply section in Wal-Mart. $1.77 per hundred tags $1.99 at
Office
> Max. The box serves as a "writing desk" while I am runnin' pollen.
I pull a
> few tags from the box and use the lid to clamp 'em by the string. I
use
> initials of the pollen parent I'm using on each tag cause I prefer
dabbin'
> pollen to writin'. After writing on tags I yank 'em out without
opening the
> box. I use a hemostat to collect and hold the anther containing the
pollen
> and use a brush to remove/tranfer pollen. I hold the hemostat in my
teeth
> while writing tags. I loop the string of the tag around the base of
the
> bloom. When I'm smart, I use the string to cut through the spathe
at the base
> of the bloom to drain water (sometimes I forget). I paid a heavy
price for
> not doing so on many blooms this year. I then loop the tag through
the string
> and pull modestly taut exercising some care not to pull hard enough
to cut
> into the stem at the base of the flower ovary. I sometimes use the
tag to
> also record info like number of stigmas pollinated, age of bloom,
time of
> day, etc., when I'm curious (experimenting, doing dumb, defying
conventional
> wisdom). I keep a pollen log (near the air conditioner) where I
record the
> full name of the pollen parent and the initials I use on the tag to
represent
> it. Greatest failure so far has been on occasion to use the same
initials for
> two different pollen parents. This is more a self discipline
problem than a
> system failure.
>
> Hope this helps your effort,
>
> Bill Burleson 7a/b
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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