Re: HYB: Save & Storing Pollen - pill boxes

--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:

Ya Linda, I think quit a few of us have "CRS" desease.

John B

> 
> The little sales stickers come in various sizes.  I use the little ones
> that are about the same diameter as the lid of the compartment.  They
> don't stay on very well, so I only use them for temporary "here's the
> one I want tomorrow" labels while indoors enjoying the AC.
> 
> As for number coding, waaay back when I used to process various kinds of
> samples (dirt, plant parts, etc) for ecological research, I learned the
> hard way that my brain tends to wander when doing repetitive things and
> I can make the biggest mess of indecipherable mislabeling mistakes you
> can imagine!  To minimize errors (rather to make it possible to fix
> errors that I make!), I use a lot of redundancy in taking notes, making
> labels, etc.  It's nearly impossible to spot, much less figure out how
> to fix, numbering errors, but misspellings, miswording etc are usually
> fairly easy.
> 
> For example, when I was making crosses this year, the first batch of
> crosses using SEAKIST got labeled SEA QUEST.  Easy to fix that mistake.
> If it were labeled 17-sq-o2 9, or A-12, there are just too many possible
> alternate interpretations.  Was it supposed to be 18-sq-o2 9, or
> 14-5p-02 7 (very messy handwriting).
> 
> Redundancy includes writing down the full name of each cross in my
> notebook, on the tag, on the pollen compartment, on any other labels,
> cards, paper towels in use.  That way, when I forget to write it down
> one place, hopefully, I will have remembered somewhere else.  Nuisance,
> for sure, but it works fairly well.  Only completely lost track of about
> two crosses this year.
> 
> I used to have an excellent memory, but now that isn't working as well,
> and I need even more redundancy!  Maybe I'll start taking a tape
> recorder out with me to hybridize.
> 
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> 
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