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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hand Pollination Website
  • Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 18:57:56 -0700

This is excellent. I've collected pear pollen in exactly the same way. One
minor touch was that you can dry the pollen faster if you put a cover, like
a bell jar, over the container of pollen, and include some silica gel inside
to help dry it so it won't mold.
-Lon Rombough

on 5/6/02 2:53 PM, Dr. Ethan Natelson at natelson@pipeline.com wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> At Ed Fackler's urging, Anna Whipkey has developed a very nice text and
> photo tutorial on the basics of pollen collection and hand pollination of
> apples. It may be seen at
> http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/maia/pollination.html. The small photos
> may be double clicked to enlarge them to show fine details. If you have any
> difficulty getting to the site, and I did initially for obscure reasons, go
> to the MAIA (Midwest Apple Improvement Association) web page and on the left
> side you will find an index which includes "Pollination Techniques" which
> may be clicked to also get you to this page.
>
> Regards, Ethan
>
>
>

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