Re: HYB: weather-rain

From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>

I agree with Walter.  I do a lot of my hybridizing after getting home from
work.  Usual prerequisites for a successful "take":  A stigmatic lip that
still looks decent (i.e., not completed dried out from our infamous Okie
winds); pollen that is fluffy (not clumpy -- usually an indicator it got wet
somewhere along the way and is now no good); and if I'm really in a serious
mood, I try to see if the stigmatic lip has already had "visitors" before me
(e.g., beez).  I collect my pollen early (sometimes before it even fluffs)
and place it in a church envelop, then use it (usually later that day or the
next, but sometimes as much as 3-4 days later).  I too watch the weather
forecast.  If it looks like rain, I usually just pass and go pull weeds that
day, just in case.  There has been much debate it takes for pollen to
"arrive at its destination".  With the gazillion crosses I make each year, I
don't really know the answer.

Now, I'm talking bearded crosses, not siberians (can't thump 'em if ya can't
grow 'em!), louisianas, or spurias.

Perry Dyer
Trying to get back in the groove after a national convention


<Betty, the gullywashers we have had here after a round of
pollinating have ruined all flowers and there were no takes. I listen
to the weatherman before a session.

I have made many successful crosses after coming home from work...most of my
hybridizing has been done after 5 p.m.

Walter Moores



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