Patti, you're an angel!
Thank you!
>> but if it were me I would hand pollinate just to be on the safe side.
I can't do it today, but I'll do some searching and type up something about how to hand-pollinate. Unless someone who already knows how gets there first! Is it about the same for watermelons and antelopes?
I'm thinking that we should make a couple of different pools:
1. bagged and hand-pollinated (I have organza bags and will share)
2. grown isolated from nearby neighbor watermelon patches
3. not sure about isolation.
4. grown right near XYZ varieties, so expect some interesting offspring
The third pool would probably still be pure enough for seed sharing, whether that is 90% pure or 99%. But it seems desirable to get the cleanest possible seeds when they are coming right out of one seed vault and then being offered to the USDA and NCSU research breeding programs.
