Re: CULT: Rotten pods
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Rotten pods
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- Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:54:04 -0400
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Scorch
>
> A stalled front over AR/LA/MS/TX has produced tons of rain for
>the last few days, and I fear an outbreak of rot destroying the
>eighty seed pods I can count thus far.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
Walta --
Last summer, the pod of an important cross rotted -- and I mean rotted --
just as the seeds were reaching maturity (i.e., tan and waxy). I took the
yucky green mass, separated out the seeds and washed each one individually
till it was no longer slimy. No chlorine, just water. Most of them had
been blackened to some degree by the rotten environment. Then I let them dry
out as I usually do, in a small plastic dish on a window ledge. I got
excellent germination this spring, and the seedlings were doing fine until
the massive slug attack while I was in Norfolk. Now they're recovering from
that.
I mention this to let fellow hybridizers know that all is not necessarily
lost when a seed pod goes bad.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
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