Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- Subject: Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- From: p*
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 04:58:59 -0000
Good suggestion, araveroisback (don't know your name) on continuing
the numbered crosses into numbering the seeds/seedlings. Thanks!
Patricia
--- In iris-talk@y..., "araveroisback" <showtime@b...> wrote:
> --- 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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