Storing pollen
- Subject: [iris] Storing pollen
- From: "J. Griffin Crump" j*@erols.com
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:33:46 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Linda -- Don Spoon, of Winterberry Gardens, uses a method of storing pollen
that is simplicity itself. He wraps the anther in a couple of folds of
kitchen plastic wrap and puts it in the freezer until the following year, then
pulls it out and uses it. It thaws in just a few minutes.
My cache of pollen so preserved was probably zapped by Hurricane Isabel
because I had stored it in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator, which
thawed during 3 days without power. Had I stored it in the depths of my chest
feezer, it would not have thawed. I just got some pollen from Don's reblooming
MDB Royal Maroon yesterday, and it's in a tiny plastic bag in the freezer as I
write this.
-- Griff
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