Re: HYB: Pollination
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Pollination
- From: w*
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:15:39 -0500
- Priority: normal
>
> 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
That's one reason why I smear pollen on only one stigmatic lip using
only one anther that is fairly well loaded with grains. If a flower
produces little pollen, I try to use it as the mother and not try for
the impossible with scant pollen. Some years some irises produce no
pollen, nor are they receptive. PURGATORY was productive this year
for the first time in about five years.
Some pollinate at the crack of dawn in their dry climate. In the
humid South, that is not possible. Around mid-day is best here
during a day when the temperature is below 80o and no rain is in the
forecast. When the pollen is dry and the stigmatic lip glistens, you
are in business!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8 (Thinking about the Dykes and the chances for
RHONDA FLEMING, CLARENCE, and MESMERIZER. Which one really
qualifies? Only the Shadow knows).
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