RE: Pollen Strike Rates

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I pollinate all three using the anthers to wipe on pollen.  I have gotten from 70% to nearly 0 depending on how early I get up in the morning.  I’m particularly lazy in the mornings, so that makes a big difference.  One local hybridizer gets nearly 80% with his 5 AM excursions.

 

I’m not feeling sorry for myself.  Twenty two pods will probably give me more seed than I have room to plant anyway.

 

 

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From: oneofcultivars@aol.com [mailto:oneofcultivars@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:13 PM
To: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Pollen Strike Rates

 

In a message dated 5/27/2004 2:49:33 PM Central Daylight Time, fjmjedwards@worldnet.att.net writes:

I felt sure something was wrong when I only got 22 pods from 76 pollinating attempts this spring.

How many stigmas do you pollinate? What is normal for your pollen strike rate?

Congratulations on the Pond Lilly/Romantic Evening cross. Sound like an opportunity for perhaps some fine seedlings.

As a point in passing, I did not acquire RE until summer of last year. I got it from a friend in Missouri. It is now sending up a stalk. It apparently had it's bloom time set in Missouri and it was not altered by transplanting...... either that or RE confused the spellin' of Missouri with Mississippi. (laughin')

Bill Burleson

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