HYB:Pollination/Takes
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- Subject: HYB:Pollination/Takes
- From: s*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:00:18 EST
From: storylade@aol.com
In a message dated 3/20/00 10:19:17 PM Central Standard Time,
PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com writes:
<< I am not sure how it will take
since we had extreme wind today, and it dropped in temperature 20+ degrees
from yesterday. >>
It is my practice to note time of day and weather conditions along with my
crosses. My records indicated that crosses rarely took if it rained within
six to eight hours after the cross. Wind wiped out planned crosses since it
would dry the stigmatic lip.
After hybridizing for several years, I mentioned to a visiting hybridizer of
some experience that I was afraid my crosses of the day were wasted effort
since both wind and rain had appeared unexpectedly later that day.
He replied that wind and rain, after the cross, would not affect
fertilization. He said pollination takes place when the pollen touches the
moist area of the stigmatic lip, and it either takes or it doesn't . . . at
that time. Maybe there is another explanation for the lack of
fertilization.? Barometric pressure? ?
In the beginning, most of my hybridizing information came from this same
hybridizer, but through a third party. It's amazing how information gets
garbled. Gossip, anyone?
Betty in Bowling Green KY
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