Re: HYB: Pollination
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Pollination
- From: B* S*
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:00:57 -0500
>Now I just scrape the pollen from the anthers
>using one tweezer tip, and use the tweezer tip to place the pollen (gently)
>against the inside of the lip. Both work fine; the second is more efficient
>if the pollen you want is scarce.
Just be sure to thoroughly clean the tweezer tip with alcohol between
pollinations. Better to use toothpicks or matchsticks for scarce
pollen, then throw them away.
Each seed is the product of a separate fertilization, so the
seedlings from one pod can have different "fathers" if mixed pollen
is inadvertantly used. I wonder if this might not be the source of
some of the otherwise inexplicable results sometimes reported here.
--
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<wshear@email.hsc.edu>
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