RE: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Help! I need pollen

Will,

 

I will check on reblooming status in the field.  We had some VIOLET RETURNS reblooming the other day but I wouldn’t be surprised if that stock is gone.  The next factor is the rain we are getting.  Scattered showers and thunderstorms have been our forecasts lately and it is hard to even get out into the fields to weed let alone commence digging next week!  I will check and if I have some dry, fluffy pollen I will send some your way.

 

Botanically,

 

Kelly D. Norris

Master Gardener/Freelance Writer

Bedford, Iowa USA

Zone 4b/5a

www.rainbowfarms.net

Newsletter Editor:  Dwarf Iris Society

 

 

And when it is gone, it shall be gone forever.

All our television will not bring it back to us,

and none of our spacecraft can take us to where it vanished.  It is the last fading voice of the prairie wilderness, echoing after the lost clouds of curlews and plovers, crying farewell. 

--John Madson

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of willwarner@alltel.net
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:45 AM
To: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Help! I need pollen

 

Will,

Too bad, FRENCH HORN just finished blooming 3 days ago but now it's
shriveled up.  I would have gladly collected some pollen for you if you had
asked a few days earlier.  As for collected pollen, I have never made a
sucessful cross using stored or mailed pollen.  Maybe I've just been
unlucky.

Enjoy your bloom stalks but be careful that it doesn't cause the rhizome to
bloom out.  Have you harvested any of your pods yet ?   I made a few last
minute crosses last weekend with no expectations and got 4 new pods.  One on
MESMERIZER x FRENCH HORN,  and two seedlings of ((BLACKOUT x HONKY TONK
BLUES) x (THORNBIRD x TRIPLE WHAMMY))  I'll be curious as to what type of
appendage ratio I get from these seedlings since BLACKOUT supposedly has the
SA inhibiting gene.

Chris




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