Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- Subject: Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- From: a*
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:36:37 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., "pinkirises" <pbrooks@w...> wrote:
>
> 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.
Wow! Patricia, that's something that anybody can use! and I imagine a
whole lot cheaper than buying anything! I suspect you could just
record consecutive numbers from year to year even. Then I bet it
would be a fairly easy thing to use a database program to keep up
with your crosses and you might be able to identify more accurately
who is and is not sterile. Now, I know that seedlings are often
identified by a numbering system on the show bench even; do you
suppose you could carry your cross number forward and even use on the
seedling as a prefix?
Ex: Cross #23 produces 16 seeds, ten of those seeds sprout and would
be numbered 23-1 to 23-10.
Seems like in that case you could even keep some seeds from a given
cross for a year or two before planting (assuming they would remain
viable) and still know who they are.....
uh oh, I'm rambling....
christian, KY
thanks Patricia, and the unknown tipster
> --- 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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