Re: HYB: Beginners:Pods & seeds
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: Beginners:Pods & seeds
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:00:19 -0400
Uh oh, that doesn't sound good, Adam. They should have a hard core, even if they are very small, esp after soaking. Pinhead size sounds like aborted ovary. 

On 3/17/2012 9:16 PM, Adam Cordes wrote:

They were no bigger than a pinhead, white
to tan in color, and blew around in the wind like chaff.
If I get time, I'll dig out the numbers, but best I can recall, there were a dozen or so seeds, good germination. No fewer than seeds on a lot of 'normal' pods here in the iris vale of despair.
Wish I had taken a photo - best I can remember the stalk was only an inch or two. But the pod was green, so it was able to manufacture food for the developing seeds, and no rot problems, which I think was the key. Window sill only gets a little morning sun, but is bright. The most surprising thing to me is that there was enough moisture in a pod that young to keep developing seeds happy. My earlier attempts to provide moisture to broken off pods (potato etc) just resulted in rot, & I really didn't expect to get anything from such a young pod, so just left it to its own resources. 


Linda, that's just unreal!  Was there any stalk to feed that pod?  How many
germinated from it?  I would assume just one would have.
Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7b, where spring has morphed into summer, about 2 months early. & we have had light frost as late as May here! ridiculous weather. 

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