Re: Pollen Strike Rates/ Fw: BUGLES AND HORNS

One extra trick. Cut stalks (or branches) of flowers and keep them inside. Use pollen fresh or take off standards, style arms  and falls as flower start to die. Pollen dries out and remains viable. Can use this pollen when dew or rain has made outdoor pollen too wet.

Chuck Chapman 

"Colleen Modra" <colleen@impressiveirises.com.au> wrote:

>Bill
>
>I collect my pollen into little test tubes which I keep labelled in a rack
>in the fridge in a sealed container with milk powder as a desiccant. Mostly
>the pollen I'm using is less than a week old but have had strikes with it
>months old.
>
>We don't get a lot of rain during bloom season, and I mostly pollinate onto
>very fresh flowers, sometimes I force them open if they are not quite there.
>I usually pollinate in early morning or late evening because of work
>commitments.
>Did some pollinating while in California, all with very fresh pollen and
>probably got at least 50%.
>
>Colleen Modra
>Impressive Irises
>
>PO Box 169
>Charleston  SA 5244
>
>sales@impressiveirises.com.au
>www.impressiveirises.com.au
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <oneofcultivars@aol.com>
>To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Pollen Strike Rates/ Fw: BUGLES AND HORNS
>
>
>> In a message dated 5/26/2004 4:32:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
>> colleen@impressiveirises.com.au writes:
>>
>>
>> > I'd prob get about 40% takes on my crosses
>> >
>>
>> I know we toil under different climate conditions. Still, I would be much
>> interested in the details of hybridizing techniques by which you attain
>such a
>> high strike rate.
>>
>> Smiles,
>> Bill Burleson
>>
>
>
>


-- 
Chuck Chapman, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Zone 4/5


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