Re: Pollen Strike Rates

This year it has not made any difference  whatever method I  used  nothing worked. It rained at night and pollen was no good till afternoon. By then the fresh blooms were too old. Last year almost all iris were dug. I did not have a lot of blooms to work with.
 
All together 175+ crosses with about 12 pods.  Most of the crosses I made were not expected to take with the conditions they were made under. Last year the brushes I used were soft hair type but I cut them off to ¼". This made them very stiff. I believe I was damaging  the stigmatic lip with them. This year I used stamens.
 
Last year I had pretty good germination, 400 out of 550 seeds. I save most of those pots and got one seedling from second year germination. This year I got 220 out of 600 seeds.
 
 With health problems this year I only made two trips to the farm( 25 miles one way). I missed most of the TB bloom and SDBs were pure dogs. The weeds are doing super.
 
Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b
SW Ohio
Region 6

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