RE: Pollen Strike Rates


Congratulations!!

 

So maybe in two years when the rest of us have relatively few seedlings to admire we can enjoy yours!!

 

Botanically,

 

Kelly D. Norris

Master Gardener/Freelance Writer

Bedford, Iowa USA

Zone 4b/5a

Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm

www.rainbowfarms.net

Newsletter Editor, Iowa Bluebird Conservationists

 

The love of knowledge is a sort of madness.
C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Orr [mailto:irisdude@msn.com]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 12:12 PM
To: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Pollen Strike Rates

 

Kelly and all:

 

Ok, you finally got me to get up and quit procrastinating and to verify my crosses (something I have been meaning to do and kept putting off).

 

So, I went out into the garden and made sure I had a pod for each of the entries in my stud-book. (You KNOW you are getting older when you have iris crosses, rather than dates' phone numbers in your stud-book).  lol

 

Anyway, here are the results:

 

I made my first cross this year on 3/24/04 and my last on 4/28/04. 

 

I made 186 crosses, and currently have 109 full pods.  That is almost 59%. 

 

8 of those pods involve DOCTOR NO as either a pollen or pod parent.

 

Patrick Orr

Phoenix, AZ  Zone 9

USA

 

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: k*@frontiernet.net

To: S*@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:27 PM

Subject: RE: [SpaceAgeRobin] Pollen Strike Rates

 

What do others have for success?  I can’t believe I am actually doing something right!

 

 

Botanically,

 

Kelly D. Norris




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