Re: Rebloomers already for John !
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John ,
I don't believe I asked a question..... but many people offered useful
information after reading my post. I feel as if your dragons are
flaming me for no reason.
Christopher Darlington
John Jones wrote:
>
>
> Chris ( and everyone for that matter)
>
> I don't want you to take this reply as an indication that you shouldn't
> post any question you want to the list, you should. There are always new
> answers that come up, but in this case there is a lot of good
> information in the archives to augment what ever replies you may get (I
> see that Colleen sent one already). Search on "storing pollen" or
> "freezing pollen" (one at a time and including the quotes) and go from there.
>
> Christopher Darlington wrote:
> >
> >
> > The bad part of this for me is that this unexpected rebloom erases all
> > possibilities of seeing these cultivars bloom for me next spring in my
> > climate , zone 5 . The best I can hope for is rebloom next fall which
> > doesn't help me because I ordered these irises for breeding as well.
> > I'm going to collect the pollen and freeze it in hopes that it'll still
> > be viable next spring. All of my pollen freezing experiments failed
> > this year but weather conditions were hardly ideal , so I'll blame my
> > failures on the weather ;-)
> >
>
> --
>
> John | "There be dragons here"
> | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> | to indicate the edge of the known world.
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