HYB: limited fertility
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- Subject: HYB: limited fertility
- From: D* K*
- Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 14:10:28 -0400
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>From: Sterling Okase <sterling_o@yahoo.com>
>
>Anyway, that's my BLAST story. Keep trying, it might
>give you seeds or pollen someday.
>
>===
I'm really baffled by this phenomenon of "sometimes you get pollen,
sometimes you don't". From what I've been told, quarterbred arilbreds
usually do not give good pollen. But 4 out of 7 in my garden have given me
some.
GREEN EYED SHEBA produced lots of fluffy pollen on all her blooms. She
seems pollen fertile because a number of those crosses have formed nice big
fat pods. She also has 2 or 3 pods of her own, so she appears to be pod
fertile too.
OMAR'S TORCH bloomed twice, the first flower was barren, the second had
some scroungy looking pollen on it.
SATAN'S MISTRESS produces copious quantities of fluffy pollen on all her
blooms, without fail so far.
ARIL REVERIE produced fluffy pollen on its first flower...more flowers are
in bud. Walter Moores, who hybridized it, has never noticed pollen on ARIL
REVERIE before.
Wouldn't that be nice if quarterbreds are so happy in my garden that they
can't help but be fertile?? Or maybe it's that Viagra soil amendment I've
been using. <grin!>
It would be one thing to occasionally find scroungy pollen on these
quarterbreds, but to consistently get anthers loaded with fluffy pollen
just baffles me about their reputation for limited fertility.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, SIGNA, SLI, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: ABs, REBs, LAs, Native Ohio SPEC and SPEC-X hybrids
(Check out my web page at http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html)
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