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Sunday, February 02, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Groundhog Day Pollination
335 Scherber ’11 (x 1734.5 Steil)- 2/2/14 pollination
Today, I had a beautiful 5-lobe flower open up and I also was fortunate to have an available male flower to make the cross I wanted. Now, I just have to wait and see what happens. However, this is a vast improvement from what I experienced last year with the poor female flower development. There were many female flowers that simply would not even open for me to even have a chance at pollinating, where this year the first flower to show has developed as would be expected and will hopefully result in a successful pollination.
Looking back to last year, I think an excessive amount of nitrogen was the main cause of my lack of female flower development. For this year, I have been careful not to repeat this and as a result I may be more on the deficient side of things but if it means increased odds of pollination success, I am all for it.
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