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

Thanks Kelly, I greatly appreciate it.  We've been lucky here to get any 
rain at all.  If you do happen to have any pollen, here's my address:
Will Warner
14705 E. 2074 Rd.
Stockton Mo 65785

> 
> From: "Kelly D. Norris" <kellydn@frontiernet.net>
> Date: 2005/07/02 Sat AM 11:13:28 CDT
> To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Help! I need pollen
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> Will,
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> 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.
> 
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> Botanically,
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> Kelly D. Norris
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> Master Gardener/Freelance Writer
> 
> Bedford, Iowa USA
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> Zone 4b/5a
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> www.rainbowfarms.net
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> Newsletter Editor:  Dwarf Iris Society
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> And when it is gone, it shall be gone forever. 
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> All our television will not bring it back to us,
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> 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.  
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> --John Madson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com
> [S*@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
> 
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> 
> 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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