Re: Pollen Viability and spring
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Pollen Viability and spring
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 07:27:31 -0500
>use the right amount of pollen for the cross.
sharon - what does this mean? what is the right amount? and do you run back
and forth across your garden getting a toothpick of pollen from the donor
each time you make a cross? (i have this mental cartoon image of hybridizers
leaping over rows of plants holding aloft toothpicks impaling anthers like
little vienna sausages, hoping the wind doesn't dry out or blow away the
pollen grains)
<<HIGHER humidity by New Mexico standards -- not HIGH humidity by Tennesee
<<standards.
i wondered if you meant the humidity got all the way up to 20%...but from all
your excellent, helpful descriptions of what works and what doesn't, i doubt
that humidity has been anywhere near as much problem as my timing and heat.
the little dark blue anemone blanda are starting to bloom! our record freeze
killed the buds on nearly all the hybrid daffodils. sigh. one more reason
why biological diversity is important....
linda mann e tenn usa
