RE: HYB: Who's your daddy?
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] HYB: Who's your daddy?
- From: J* R*
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:03:10 -0700
Patricia:
Logically, the pollen from cross #1 probably got there first. I do not
think it impossible that cross #2 pollen might have arrived in time for some
of the developing seeds to be #2 babies, but a few days later it is probably
less likely. I always have best luck with takes on "first morning open"
pollination. On hot days, I have been known to (brutally!) rip a flower
open to pollinate it before leaving for work, so it won't be drying out
before I get home. Certainly a mixed crop is possible for fraternal twins,
but if the delay is too long before the second pollination, it may be too
late.
John Reeds
> From: pinkirises[SMTP:pbrooks@whidbey.net]
> A couple of times, I have put a cross on a bloom, then noticed that I
> have it marked with a previous cross (having dropped to the bottom of
> the flower's stem, so not all that careless.) Question: If #1 took,
> will #2 be rejected? If #1 didn't take, can #2 succeed? And this is
> the dumb part -- there being three stigmatic lips, is there any
> possibility that pollen on one will go down its little channel to
> fertilize, and the other fertilize down its little shoot?
>
> In short, are plants the same as people -- if you're pregnant, you're
> not open to newcomers? But if you're promiscuous, you may not know
> till the little critter arrives who its daddy is? If then?
>
> I have such a cross, which was an important one to me and produced
> the most babies, so the question is not in the abstract.
>
> Patricia Brooks
> Whidbey Island, WA
>
>
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