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Old July 13, 2010   #1
VintageNM
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Default Emasculating PL

OK I have successfully emasculated plenty of RL flowers, but today I went to do the same to a PL and just mutilated the poor flower. First: Do I need to emasculate PL flowers to get a successful cross? Second: If I need to...how?

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Old July 13, 2010   #2
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Pick a different flower. PL flowers are no different than RL except for the fact that most PL are beefsteak so there will be a large proporton of funky fused blossoms. Just keep going until you find a normally shaped blossom. It will be one of the average sized or smaller buds.


I tried simply coating open Brandywine flowers last year with RL pollen and the success was rather low (10%-20%) because self pollenation had begun before I got there. I ended up dense planting and pulling out the few RL plants for grow out.
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