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Eddyz@efirehose.net

Place yur offers here, But the only catch is Brooks has the seed and you would have to go get it from him.
Good Luck
PS Brooks doesn't know about this.
PSS I'm not serious LOL
Eddy

3/24/2008 7:36:50 PM

Ohio

Baaaaaaaaa! hahaha! and Eddy has a few 705 Stelts hes giving away for the first 3 emails he recieves! ,,,,,,,,,And Im not serious ether!, ha!

3/24/2008 8:29:30 PM

Ohio

Eddy, we need to try the pollen thing through snail mail this year, I want to give it a try and I think it can work, Im thinking if we can pick males that will open the following day it should work,,,, if we get the males early enough in the morning for pollinating. Timing will play a key roll I think.

3/24/2008 8:46:00 PM

Ohio

Im sure that sending males over night will probably cost us a arm and a leg Eddy, but dont worry about that cause you can afford mine and your shipping cost no problem!!,,,LOL

3/24/2008 8:47:49 PM

Rhode Island

eddys mail service is a bit of a throw back. for some reason it takes a couple weeks for a standard mail to go from eddys to ri.
so id guess overnite would take ------------- a few days? lol
pap

3/25/2008 7:04:01 AM

Attempted this last year. Picked males 24hrs before they opened. Sent by fedex that morning overnight. Attached small tubes that hold water with a rubber seal commonly used on roses to the stems. As I recall the intended female opened late in the day and the set did not take. The concept should work. Timing is key and lack weekend delivery needs to be considered. http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=68945

3/25/2008 8:32:42 AM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

Brooks
Yes I think we'll give it a go,
But we need to do the overnight, I'll UPS them to you.
as Pap said, it's a crap shoot with the mail service, But with the pending cross of 1068 X 705 and reverse, how could you not try.
Thanks for the info skip
Eddy

3/25/2008 9:11:03 AM

Western NY

It almost worked, Skip. I'm glad we gave it a shot. If i didn't have the work callout, I would have been able to pollinate about a half hour or so earlier. It ended up getting pollinated at around 11am, but other than that conditions were good. Who knows, maybe it was destined to abort no matter what. Still worth a shot.

Eddy & Brooks: From what I can tell, it may be a lot easier for one of you to root a clone from one of the first secondaries, and try to ship that. If you get something rooted and cut in mid-june, i'm sure it could be shipped, growing and flowering around normal pollination time, or just a touch late.

3/25/2008 9:23:03 AM

President - GPC

The WiZ will still like to get some pollen from Paps 898 Knauss for a 898 Sibb. Why not worked for the 1450.......Whad a you say?

3/25/2008 1:04:25 PM

Rhode Island

eddy just send me the 705 and ill mail the seed back once im done with it?
pap

3/26/2008 8:35:49 AM