Re: Pollen Strike Rates/ Fw: BUGLES AND HORNS

In a message dated 5/26/2004 9:55:17 PM Central Daylight Time, irischapman@netscape.net writes:


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.


Sounds like a good trick. The objective of your method appears to be to allow the pollen sacs the longest possible time to open and the pollen the longest possible time to "mature".

I've not attempted any measurement of pollen "age" versus strikes here. Similarly though, I have noticed and used successfully pollen from almost spent blooms on occation.

Do you have a feel for the stage of development a bud must reach before it may be cut, brought inside, and still produce viable pollen in significant amounts?

As a point in passing, outside temps here have been retarding pollen development for some time now. Strangely perhaps, some cultivars seem to produce pollen irrespective of temperature. Rebound for example is now producing pollen on rebloom stalks at a rate about equal to what it produced during bloom season. Suspicion, in the same stage and cycle, is producing near zero.

Smiles,
Bill Burleson
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