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  • From: hollaus@comcast.net (R F Hollaus)
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Hybridizing question and the potential to get pollen in spring?
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:32:02 +0000

Is there a method of saving dormant adult wood of any stone fruit (prunus) in getting the dormant flowering buds to produce viable pollen, and if so how to proceed?
 
Over a year ago I planted a sweet cherry in my greenhouse and a pin cherry graft in a pot with lots of sun with plans on using pin cherry pollen to hybridize in isolation with the sweet. The good thing is that the sweet cherry is mature enough to experience a second full bloom so should be ready to fruit on gisela-5 but my potted pin cherry (self grafted /mazzard F12/1) probably will not set the amount of pollen I would like to have, if anything.
 
It comes to be a problem since the pin cherry grove is in a much northerly climate and blooms 2 months way too late.
 
RFH
location: Southern Washington State zone-6



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