Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Help! I need pollen

I got some takes this autumn with pollen that was 6 months old.
Occassionally I get a few with 10-11 month old pollen. I store the whole
anther in little tubes, with milk powder in the bottem of the container, as
a dessicant. Then have the container tightly closed and stored in the
fridge.

Maybe it's being lazy but in spring I don't have time to zig-zag over a
whole 5 acres to do crosses, so I just caryy my tubes of labelled pollen
around the garden with me.

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills AUST
zone 8/9

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Darlington" <chrisdarlington@videotron.ca>
To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: 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
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>




 
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