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From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
> It might be possible to cut twigs and break dormancy
> inside to get them to bloom but I wonder what the
> feasibility is of trying to do the crosses in the
> other direction i.e. save pollen from your earlier
> blooming trees and then dry it and refrigerate it for
> a couple months until the other trees bloom and then
> make a second trip back up there later to collect the
> fruit for seed...
>
>
> --- MARIE ASHTONwrote:
>
> > You can do several things. - spraying rest breaking
> > chemicals such as dormex you can cause the flower
> > buds to bloom earlier - You can freeze dry pollen
> > for next year from the later blooming trees up north
> > - and you can buy or dig up a tree that is large
> > enough to produce flowers while it is dormant this
> > winter. In the greenhouse it will bloom earlier than
> > it normally would (if it gets enough winter chilling
> > first.) I believe that Out Back Nursery in Minnesota
> > has Pin Cherry trees for sale.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard Ashton
> > Oak Creek Orchard
> > www.oakcreekorchard.com
> > bwoodtx@verizon.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: R F Hollaus
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:32 AM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Hybridizing question and the
> > potential to get pollen in spring?
> >
> >
> > 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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> Michael Dossett
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> phainopepla@yahoo.com
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