Re: Re: HYB: frozen pollen (was update)

In a message dated 5/30/2006 9:07:00 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<<Were the envelopes regular paper envelopes like the kind you  mail stuff
in?>> 
Personal size envelopes, but smaller ones would have worked.  
 
Oh!!! The larger sticky notes (Post it type) are really good for  pollen.  
With sticky edge down and up. . . fold twice reducing  the size to 1/3.  Write 
the name of the iris on the center fold.   Place pollen in the envelope.  
Sticky edge should seal the bottom if you  made the fold right!  Then I do a very 
small fold on each end, just for  insurance.  I tend to OVER do everything!  
Found this on the Internet  and really like it.  Small enough and big enough!  

<<Do you mean the pollen did not rest on the powdered milk  because the 
pollen was in envelopes?>> 
 
Yes.  Pollen on powered milk tends to look very similar???   No??
 
<<Did you scrape the pollen from the anthers into the  envelope?>>
 
No!  You think I'm a spring chicken??  How would I find the  pollen when I 
need it??  <vbg>  2 hour drying seems to dry the  body of the anther, also.  
Seriously, I use the anther as transportation  and I need the end to grasp.   I 
don't use paint brushes or  swabs!  Fingers only.  

<<Same routine didn't work this year with IMMORTALITY pollen  collected
last fall.  But she is so fussy, I'm not surprised.>> 
 
Last fall, IMMORTALITY pollen did form, but was not taking on  anything.  
Either it was soaked in our constant dew, or it just wasn't  fertile.  I didn't 
try to save any of it.  
 


 
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