Re: HYB: good pod parents?
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- Subject: Re: HYB: good pod parents?
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:54:50 -0600 (MDT)
Linda Mann writes:
>It might help me improve the odds of getting a successful cross if I could at
>least avoid trying to make crosses with 'known' pod sterile kinds.
Hi, Linda! Sorry I don't know enough about pods to know how cooperative
those on the cultivars you listed might be, BUT this morning when I stopped
by our club's display beds at the State Capitol to cut spent stalks, I
found a big healthy clump of one cultivar in which it appeared that EVERY
pod on every branch on EVERY stalk had been fertilized! A prodigy of
desire.
Among the fifty or so stalks I culled in the bed, there were only two other
swollen pods. Most of the plants had been crawling with a half-inch-long
spotted beetle near peak bloom, but only this amazing amoena seems to have
taken full advantage of the pollination.
Now the bad news: This plant's name has evaporated. It is an amoena with
apricot falls, tangerine beard. If I ever do track down the name, I'll let
everyone know what it was so our newbie hybridizers who want the thrill of
success can take advantage of what appears to be a scandalously willing
nature.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
257 feet above sea level, annual average rainfall more than 49 inches and
year-round average relative humidity (6 a.m. reading) 84% (we have lots of
trees). Temps shoot into the mid- to high-90s at the peak of summer and dip
to the 20s and 30s most winters, although we can and do go to greater
extremes in both regards. Rapid changes are no big surprise here.
