Lalambchop1 said:Great info Sue. Thanks!
You're very welcome. It was good of you to take the time to write this and pass on your experiences. I was also curious about the drying up of stigmatic fluid statement because I'd never heard of this before. So I went out mid-afternoon here yesterday and brought in some styles to look at under the microscope. At least at that time there was still plenty of presumably stigmatic fluid on the stigmas (and we never got to our predicted high, it clouded over and started to rain putting an end to my stigma/style collecting - the temp maxed out at 25.5 C (just under 78F). I tried to take some pictures but they're not as sharp as I would like, here's one:
Interestingly Mike Huben, a "northern" hybridizer, wrote a few years back in an article ".......Some varieties also remain receptive well into the senescence of the flower, and can be pollinated even after the bloom has closed."
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/p...
I wish I'd read that before because I'd wanted to put some pollen on a daylily that had lots of flowers the day before but none the day I had the pollen I wanted to use. I thought about trying it anyway and should have!
