Re: HYB: technique
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: technique
- From: c*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:11:16 EDT
In a message dated 5/21/01 9:39:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lmann@icx.net
writes:
> Anybody care to describe in detail the technique of using toothpicks to
> spread pollen? I must be missing something or else just don't have the
> patience to use this technique. How does one get the pollen onto the
> toothpick? I'm trying to use round picks - are the flat ones better?
Oh Yes!!!! I can barely imagine what torture it must have been using those
tiny chop sticks! <G>
>
> Also, not having figured out where these little condiment cup thingies
> Sharon McAllister uses for pollen come from (they don't have them at my
> local hardware store <g>),
Childen and grandchildren will willingly collect them from fast food places
> little plate of several carefully gathered anthers again this year while
> fumbling around in the iris patch, I grabbed up some weekly pill
> reminder container thingies and used those. They work great! Each one
> is big enough to put a bit of card stock in the bottom with the name of
> hte cultivar and has enough room to store more anthers than will ever
> grow here. I think they make transparent ones, but mine are opaque
> plastic. I labeled the tops with Sharpie. The plastic is slick enough
> that the Sharpie label is easy enough to rub off to make room for a new
> label, but stays on well enough for the day's crosses.
>
> Thank you for a wonderful idea
>
> There are several different ways I've been told. Use the broad end like a
> butter knife to scrape pollen off the anther and on to the lip. Use the
> ends to gently knock pollen grains off the anther onto the lip.You may also
> add spitting on andd liking the toothpick to moisten it first. i find that
> laying the anther pollen side down on the lip and gently squeezing
> everthing together like an Oreo cookie works well.
Cathy
Stockton Ca. Zone 9b 102F and 5 miles from the inception point of Edith
Wolford <BG>
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