Re: HYB: tweezers

From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>

>>Sometimes when I'm trying to grab the base of an anther with my tweezers,
>>I'll scratch the style arm.  How likely is that damage going to prevent
>>that style arm from being succesfully pollenated?
>
>DenDen, one way to nearly completely avoid that is to make sure you use the
>rounded-end tweezers, and to make sure that you buy heavy duty... they are a
>bit more expensive but well worth it in the long run.  I have tried both
>kinds, the squeeze and hold and the ones with finger loops.  I prefer the
>ones that you squeeze and hold...more control for me...and I am a control
>freak!
>
GarGar, believe it or not I am using rounded tweezers exactly like the ones
you use.  But I'm just too inexperienced with working them in behind the
anther so that I can pinch it off.  I'm not a control freak...they're just
the only tweezers I've got.  <grin!>

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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