Re: CULT: Seed Pods
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Seed Pods
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- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 06:26:49 -0700
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
Just a quick word of warning. I have tried this several times and each time
the stalk has rotted. I have had much better luck with just sticking the
entire stalk in water, changing the water daily and every other day slicing
a thin bit off the base of the stalk. Never lost a stalk this way and have
had the seed pods mature nicely.
Mike - turning hot in Porterville
-----Original Message-----
From: Irisborer@aol.com <Irisborer@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 3:37 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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