Re: HYB: deciding what to cross
- Subject: Re: HYB: deciding what to cross
- From: L* M*
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:30:52 -0400
I said:>> Easy this year - find the three cultivars that made any
pollen....>>
& Neil Mogeson in North Carolina, 100 miles east said:
<You too? Pollen is sure scarce here! Later blooms on a stalk seem
to fare better. The first bloom of HAPPENSTANCE was pollen-bare, ..>
I am making some very wierd crosses this year & while that's not really
all that unusual, I usually spend some time checking pedigrees as I go,
trying to at least have some mix in the parentages that could
conceivably combine into something that will live & bloom here, have
hafts wider than those from the 40s, stalks that won't all fall down,
and more than 5 blooms per stalk, preferably at least 7 with some
branching, and now and then some potential for rebloom....
Not this year - one of my 'art shade' bee pod seedlings from PERFUME
COUNTER is loaded with pollen - low bud count, somewhat strappy floppy
flowers, not very pretty colors - so I've been slapping pollen from it
on all kinds of creaky elderly varieties and species. Hopefully, none
of those will take, so I won't be wondering during some future good
bloom season what dementia possessed me to make these crosses...
Good to hear that your HAPPENSTANCE made some pollen in later blooms -
first was a dud here also.
Once again, I am putting CELEBRATION SONG pollen on everything in sight,
because he is both loaded with flowers and all flowers are loaded with
pollen, if a bit soggy from all the rain.
I couldn't say what most of my crosses have been - I've been walking the
rows, peering into flowers, searching for pollen, then trying to figure
out what to do with it.
And to top it off, today I ran out of what I had thought was an infinite
supply of string tags & wasted hours going from store to store hunting
for more. Fortunately, the car repair place took pity on me and gave me
a few very elegant plastic tie thingies that they use to label
customers' car keys.
Well, sorry to babble on - I am totally worn out and muttering to myself
online....
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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