Re: CULT: Seed Pods
From: "Sandra Steinberg" <steinbergs@home.com>
Kathy congratulations ! Sandy Steinberg
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Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Seed Pods
> From: Irisborer@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 6/20/1999 6:22:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> AHKAtelier@aol.com writes:
>
> << They had started to yellow a little, but were not brown. Is
> there any special care I should give these pods to have viable seeds. I
am
> hoping I'll still get seeds I can use. Are they mature when they start
to
> yellow? I haven't hybridized before this year so I am a bit nervous.
Any
> hints would be greatly appreciate. >>
>
> Try this...... trim the stalk to a managable length, dig a hole in a
potato
> and stick the cut end of the stalk in there. Prop it somehow somewhere
> protected (sunny window?) until the pod completes the maturation process.
I
> am told that the sugars and moisture of the potato will bring the seedpod
> along.
>
> No personal experience, but I'm throwing it out there FWIW.
>
> Kathy Guest in East Aurora, NY who danced till the wee hours at daughter's
> wedding - and who could not tolerate more than one wedding every 26 years
or
> so.
>
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