Magnificent post, Leo! Thank you. I'm curious about one thing. You wrote... >Monocots, including garlic, and almost all the plants we like to talk about here, normally have three carpels per flower. Do you know if those three carpels are independent of each other? In other words, if I pollinate the stigmas on one carpel and don't pollinate the others, will I get a pod with seeds in one third of it, or does the pollen fertilize all three carpels? I ask because occasionally I'll have a very rare flower and I'd like to cross several things on it. If I can pollinate each carpel separately that raises some interesting possibilities... Thanks, Mike San Jose, CA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…