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Re: Open and self pollinated

What about temperature?

Chris Andersren
Moraga, Calif.

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> From: Duncan McAlpine <dm2477@lab3.ca.boeing.com>
> To: Vickie  Brock <dang@athenet.net>
> Cc: brocfarm@pacific.net; pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: Open and self pollinated
> Date: Thursday, April 17, 1997 2:30 PM
> 
> > 
> > >>This may sound like a dumb question to you heavy  hitters but what
does the
> > >>term open mean.
> > >>
> > >>Charlie
> > >>southern Ontario
> > >there are no dumb questions when you searching for knowledge.
> > >
> > >OPEN pollenated means that it was not a controled pollenation it was
left
> > >to the bees and your not sure what it crossed with.
> > >
> > >HAND POLLENATED means you are the bee you hand pollenate to control
the
> > >cross.  You take a 999 and cross it with 888 then you can close the
female
> > >blossom so no other pollen from out and about can
> > >enter...................Brock
> > 
> I prefer to hand pollenate with a camel hair paint brush. Do it in the
morning
> when the female blossom just opens. Keep track of the female bloosom. 
> Understand what day it will first open and collect fresh male pollen via
the
> paint brush and apply to the female blossom. Collect male pollen from
several
> different male flower and even from different plants. Keep records of
which
> plant you collect you pollen from and what the lobes are on the female 
> blossom.> 
> 
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> Sincerely,  
> 
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