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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Doug wrote:

"A self-fertile flower may still need insect (or human) activity to carry
 its heavy, sticky pollen to the right place."

Hi Doug,

I'm sure you're right.  I suspect that's why caged flowers only got 15 to
20% fertilization.  Nothing was there to move the pollen around (not even
the wind).



Doug wrote:

"I understand that a few peach cultivars are self-sterile. My memory says
 that J.H. Hale is one of them."

Right again.  I forgot to mention that could be another possibility why Jim
and Diane could be having trouble with pollination.  Hale and its relatives
are the ones I've heard that are self-sterile.

Mark
KS