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Monday, June 20, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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pollinated the 1493 at 11.5' with 9 1725 males this morning and she was a beautiful 5 lober. due to a severe storm rolling in and myself needing to leave work by 6:30, i decided to grab the males at 5:30 am and then peel the petals off even though not open yet and open the female carefully and use my fingers to slowly stretch the petals open with some tickling and fanagling and pollinated her at 5:40 am instead of when she would open in about a half hour. her petals were twisted and crimped on a crooked flower top that would have had to be pulled apart to let her open anyways. it is now raining cats and dogs and lightening heavy so the decision to carefully pollinate her this way was the decision i had to make. it was this or use the umbrella and wait for her to open in a half hour to 45 minutes with winds lightening and heavy rain to contend with and then trying to get to work. i chose the former and we will see how it plays out. i have had to do this before with success but if i had my druthers, i would have liked to wait for her to open. my alarm was set for 5:45 so thankfully my crazy dog heard the thunder and woke me up 15 minutes early to do the deed before the skies opend up. she is zipped tied up and coverded with a table and i will throw a bottle of ice between the fan and the female before hitting the road. crazy way to jump out of bed. lol.
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