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Jun 27, 2012 6:41 AM CST
Name: Tina
Where the desert meets the sea (Zone 9b)
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Hi Shannon,

My understanding is that you have at least two main options:

1. If your Irish Glory will surely have blooms open tomorrow, at the same time as Trahlyta, then you can bring pollen from one to the the other's stigma (see picture). This can be done by using a q-tip, tiny paintbrush, or pull pollen 'stems' with tweezers or fingers to bring and rub over the other plant's stigma.

2. If the two plants may not have flowers opening on the same day, you can remove some of the pollen stems from Irish Glory today, remove the pollen pods from the top onto a paper plate or towel, air dry for 2-12 hours, put in an air-tight container, and refrigerate the pollen until you use them tomorrow on Trahlyta.

I've heard it is best to do the pollination when it is between 70-80 degrees, so you may want to time it for the time of day when it is in that range...

There are so many successful hybridizers here that I expect they will have additional/other advice ... but this is my general understanding from hearing what has worked for them.

Hope you have a successful pollination - let us know if it takes? :)Thumb of 2012-06-27/chalyse/974665
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