Re: HYB:Pollination/Takes

From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>


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From: <storylade@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:00 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB:Pollination/Takes


> 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
>


Well Betty,

It worked!  The pods are forming and getting fat.

Patrick

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