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Betja said: In one of your earlier pictures I noticed your hang tags with paper clips. I've been using paper hang tags, but just before we left I noticed a couple of them were getting chewed on, and I really dread what I'll find when we return. So now I'm going to start exploring other tags that I can write on. Can you tell me where you get those hang tags? and do you write on them with a #2 pencil?

Betty, I will answer that one too I copied this from Fred also. We use these when there is a pollen we may use occassionally and don't give it a color. Other than that we use colored paper clips that has an assigned pollen which is written down, makes it faster to tag using paper clips than to write the pollen parent over and over for a pollen we use a lot.

Now for those who want to write other info such as date pollinated and whatever else the tags you write on would be better.

The ones we use are nothing more than cut up mini blinds with a hole punched in them and a paper clip used to secure it on the plant. Here's Fred's photo


I use the plastic coated paper clips so thye won't rust but any will do. Make sure the hole is close enough to the end or when you try to put the paper clip on it will rip it. And yes, we use a #2 pencil to write on them; it doesn't fade or wear off. If the cross doesn't take you can just put a line through the pollen name and write another below it. You can continue to do this until the front and back are filled up or you can erase it if you wish.

You can also use the ones that look like the plastic bread tags; Earthstar has a couple of different ones.