Dave, I will briefly explain my method.
So in the first photo my setup is there. Plastic tag with whole punch, garden marker(never fades like a sharpie), pencil to Make a foil cap, green tie for tag to stem
Here is my journal from this year. I haven't done that many crosses due to the beetle but I'm probably gonna work with more henryi stuff too. So my system works on the year number and a three digit number. I settled on a three digit number because there may be years that I do over 100 crosses but I will never do more than 999! I mark it in the book along with a few notes. I did a cross with older pollen because it was all I had left so I noted it. I don't want to rule it out in the future if it doesn't take because of bad pollen. I also listed frozen pollen from last year for the same reason. My log has also changed a bit as I now leave a line to mark down at the end of the season. If the pod had 80 seeds it's noted, if the dog knocked over the stem, it's noted.
