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Colorado

Anyone out there in the US growing an 898 and would be willing to overnight ship some pollen to me?

I would gladly pay for all shipping costs and give you a big handful of the seeds.

Cross I am after is 772 Poirier x 898 knauss.

Pete

1/11/2009 10:59:10 AM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

I don't have any more 898's Pete but I selfed the 898 a few years back and I have seeds left from the 826 that it produced. Let me know if you are interested in any seeds. I would gladly send you a few.

1/11/2009 11:36:09 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Pete,

I have several selfed 898's with Doc Garrells being a dynamite one.....You are welcome to any of them....Or how bout a 772 X 998.6?

1/11/2009 11:50:50 AM

Colorado

thanks, but I'm looking for the real deal in terms of pollen, rather than a sib of self... wiz, John Vincent already made a fantastic 772 x 998...

1/11/2009 11:55:04 AM

Western NY

there will be a few i'm sure.

I tried the overnighted pollen before. It didn't take, but I think we were really close.

The most likely "sure thing" for a long distance pollen transfer may be with cutting off the first secondary vine and shipping that overnight. Let the other grower produce his own males. At worst, the guy on the receiving end may have to wait a little past the normal pollination date for the vine to start kicking out males.

1/11/2009 12:26:21 PM

milford, CT,

Andy..that is an awesome idea..has anyone ever actually done it???? Mark

1/11/2009 1:30:02 PM

Western NY

I transplanted a piece of a broken off secondary to a different part of the patch here last year. It had started to root on its own around the time it was cut, so that helped. I was amazed - I almost hit 400 pounds on that cutting, with limited roots and 150 square feet at the most.

1/11/2009 2:01:34 PM

Eastern Washington State

Andy that is a brilliant idea. My two cents is to duplicate your experience more or less exactly, i.e.:
first dirt layer the secondary's first internode, then cutting and shipping the rooted secondary, which should recover faster for the person receiving it.

brian

Back in school I used to flash-freeze tobacco pollen in liquid nitrogen, and it was viable a few years later after storage at -80C. However I once tried using pollen from old flowers sitting at room temperature in the greenhouse (maybe a week old pollen) and the pollinations didn't take. Perhaps shipping with cool packs (not freezer packs) might have made the difference. Your clonal shipment idea is better anyway.

1/11/2009 4:36:33 PM

Colorado Springs.Co

Is there anything in particular you like about the 898 Pete? I have those genetics in a seed I have been thinking about getting into the ground this year.

1/11/2009 4:46:25 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

Longmont, Steve Daletas is the king of growing the 898. If anyone will be growing it I'm sure he will. Maybe you ask him, he is a super guy.

1/11/2009 5:52:09 PM

Minnesota

Then that makes Jim Beauchemin President, (actually I don't know the stats) I know he has grown alot of 898 Knauss's.

1/11/2009 10:45:20 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Check the regulations on shipping dirt on plants...

1/12/2009 2:08:42 PM

hosta growers ship bare root plants. their techniques might work with Andy's suggestion and would help with Shannon's regulatory concerns. here's a link -

http://www.hostalibrary.org/misc/ship/index.html

shipping frozen pollen may work as well?

I buried a secondary that snapped off in a windstorm last summer and it produced both male and female flowers even though it was only a few feet long.

1/12/2009 7:10:47 PM

Columbus,ohio

Also if you got a secondaire and gave it some myccronizal.....or however it is spelled...I can't spell

1/12/2009 8:01:25 PM