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Re: collecting hosta seeds



Margaret Schnall wrote:

> I hope that this isn't beyond the scope of this list, but I wanted to ask
> about pollinating hostas. I've started hostas from purchased seed, and now
> I'd like to collect seed from my own plants. It seems like an easy way to
> propagate lots of plants. Can I save pollen from an earlier blooming hosta
> to pollinate a later blooming one? Any advice?

  Margaret & anybody else who is interested in this method:

      They do this with orchids all the time.  Simply save the pollen from the
earlier blooming variety.  Put it in one of those little plastic 35 mm camera
film containers & freeze it.  Then, when the later variety blooms, remove the
35 mm camera film container from the freezer & use that pollen to pollenate
the later blooming type.  Let me know if it works.  I know it works with
orchids!  Hope I was able to be of some help with this.
                                                                Judy Showers

http://www.epix.net/~jshowers
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