Pollenation techniques

Tim Eck teck11@embarqmail.com
Fri, 19 May 2017 09:34:43 PDT
Hi Bill,
Good to hear from you.  I have a couple of comments to your post.
First, I agree you can place three different pollens on the three prongs BUT can you tell which chamber is which?  AND since the nutrient attachment point is the septum BETWEEN chambers, wouldn't the given pollen yield seeds in different halves of two adjacent chambers? 

Second, I agree completely with pollen storage in glassine envelopes but I never bother with drying rituals, even when I collect undehisced anthers.  The secret is to put a half inch of silica gel in the bottom of a plastic file card box and store the file box of glassine envelopes in the fridge.  I keep a separate box for hipps and crinum for each year.  My 2017 hippeastrum box has somewhere over a hundred envelopes right now and is still reasonably searchable.

PS If someone already mentioned this stuff, I apologize.  I noticed Outlook was throwing all PBS into Junk mail so I thought I made a rule to save in a PBS folder and now it isn't anywhere.

Tim Eck


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