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Help Please, I've pollinated my first bloom

15 years ago

Hi Everyone, I have pollinated my first bloom and I am so excited, now I have a zillion questions.

I have a noid white and a noid yellow both blooming so I used those two. I took the pollen from the white and put it on the yellow. Here come the questions...

1. Can you store the pollen.? Right now I wrapped the qtips in foil and put them a ziplock baggie with the lable and date.

2. How long is the pollen viable? Can I use this same pollen to pollinate other blossoms?

3. Will it make a difference if the next time I use pollen from the white to the yellow? Since these are all NOID's It doesn't really matter what I get, I just want to learn how to do it and none of my named varieties have bloomed this year.

4. Can anyone tell me where to find any info about this?

Thanks a bunch for helping, Linda

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Comments (3)

karyn1
15 years ago
I don't use q-tips. I usually break off the entire stamen with the anthers attached and stick them in a baggie if I'm going to store them. I store them in the freezer and honestly have no idea how long it's good for. For the most part it doesn't matter which pollen you use on what plant. I don't know if different brugs (arborea, aurea, sanguinea, suaveolens, versicolor, vulcanicola) can all be used to pollinate each other or if some have different numbers of chromosomes like passion vines.
Karyn
fool4flowers
15 years ago
I think its good in the freezer for a year if you store the whole anther.
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Thanks a bunch, I think I will try again with the next blooms that open.

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