Re: Pollen


>Hi all,
> Can someone tell me if you can gather pollen from a flower that is
>past it's peak and already folding up and expect it to be fertile
>enought to produce a cross.  Really, for all I know this might be the
>best time although I didn't do this last year and had a very fruitful
>success for my first attempt at Hybridizing.  Please enlighten me.

Dean, just yesterday I rescued some pollen from a folding-up bloom of
JURASSIC PARK to apply to WORLD CLASS.  I suspect that if a bloom has
completely lysed (gone mushy) the pollen would not be salvagable.


Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@mail.hsc.edu>

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