• Subject: Re: HYB: Pollinating in dry winds
• From: S*@aol.com
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:12:41 EDT

Still could use some rain if you have any to spare.  Apparently, it  rained 
(10 drops) while I was at Victoria, Canada.  That ends the longest  spell - 
118 days without rainfall - of no measurable precipitation.  The  bee pods 
look nice and fat.  I assume they  have seeds.  The  seeds are probably 
crosses between siblings.  Fertile little devils.   I have very few bee pods 
that occurred after the middle of April when the winds  increase.
 
Scarlett
 
 
In a message dated 5/30/2011 7:26:22 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
MryL1@msn.com writes:

I've  been known to pry open blooms to pollinate them.
Never to avoid dryness,  though!  Success rate about the same
as for freshly opened.

You  may find many of your bee pods are empty.  My theory is
that the iris  reacted to pollen from a totally different plant but,
of course, couldn't  set seeds.  Some varieties always seem to set
lots of balloon  pods.

You may have been lucky it had been so dry when the freeze  hit.
If the iris had been full of water, they probably would have  had
more damage.

Glad to hear you're working on  rebloomers.

If you'd asked earlier, you could have had most of my  rain.  Rampant
leaf spot.  And looks like my Imidocloprid just  washed away.

Mary Lou, near Indianapolis,  Z5

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