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858 HAMPTON==811 LlOYD==752 CILIBERTO==1056.5 DUECK==972 BOBIER==891 HOLLAND==801.4 CILIBERTO==705 METTLER==1061 CILIBERTO==838 LlOYD==983.6 CILIBERTO==934 MOMBERT==757 MOMBERT==650 LloYD==651 lLoyd==847.5 LlOYD==820 LlOYD==678 LlOYD==829 LlOYD==836 LlOYD==684LlOYD==780 LlOYD==762 JONGNESS==963 STUCKER==551 MICHALEC==821 GARRELL==1024 PUKOS==1023 HESTER==,THESE ARE SOME OF THE SEED I AM THINKIN ABOUT CROSSING WITH THE 865, 650 LlOYD X 865,WHAT OTHER SEED DO YOU THINK WOULD BE GOOD,I DID NOT MENTION THE SEED THAT I HAVE ALLREADY PICKED FOR SURE THAT I WILL CROSS,IF YOU THINK THERE MAY BE A GOOD SEED THAT YOU WOULD CROSS, THAT I DID NOT MENTION, PUT IT DOWN.

2/5/2003 8:59:53 AM

Southern Illinois

and what ever seed i do pick,for the ? x 865 i will also use the 780 eaton on the same plant ? x 780,i will grow 2 fruit on each plant.

2/5/2003 9:10:30 AM

Morris, Connecticut

Do you have a 935 Lloyd? 935 Lloyd x 865 Mettler comes to mind (845 bobier and 723 bobier)....

2/5/2003 9:13:12 AM

Southern Illinois

YES I HAVE 935 LlOYD,AND MANY SELF AND SIBB 935,THAT MAY BE A GOOD IDEA WITH 845 AN 723,BUT I WILL USE 821 GARRELL AND 1023 HESTER THEY ARE SIBB,IF BEACHY EVER SENDS ME SOME SEED,1097 X 865.

2/5/2003 9:29:49 AM

French River,P.E.Island, Canada

Rick,,,,,haw many helpers do you have lined up......Peter

2/5/2003 10:38:47 AM

Southern Illinois

i can do the work of 3 guys,i have grown ag for years,i know every thing about them,what they like and what they dont like,but in the past my go was to grow many huge fruit on 1 plant,and thousands of plants,but that will change this year,so this year i will start to concentrate on growing 1 huge fruit per plant,and yes i have jasper,he lives about 15 minutes from my house,the only thing that will be a big change will be,instead of tending to 5,000 ag plants,there will be alot less than that.

2/5/2003 10:58:06 AM

Choctaw, OK

494* x 865 :)

casey

2/5/2003 2:25:23 PM

French River,P.E.Island, Canada

Just wondering ,,Rick , it seems like a lot for 1 person to keep the female & male flowers all pure to pollinate with..

2/5/2003 4:43:29 PM

Indiana

Figure one hour every morning per 50 plants in the field. Which will only net you 0-5 successful pollinations. Figure another 30 minutes the night before writing down which flowers are gonna open, covering them, and collecting pollen. I've done the drill.......
Tom Beachy

2/5/2003 7:20:17 PM

syracuse, ny

hey, rick here's a real time saver, i think--
the chip-clip idea of Boily's in Australia
is one i'm gonna elaborate on,
and another is just stick a 4'dowel with a pretty
pink flag on it to indicate at-a-glance where the foxy females are, and about %50 of the fruit i pollinated this past season were with flowers cut off the night before and allowed to open (separated well, of course!) in cups of water---i saw no difference in the effectiveness of the
pollination, and i will keep even better records of this
in '03! and, a digital camera you might use to snapshot each pollination site, boom, boom, boom and log stuff in from that---some growers just NUMBER their fruit and keep
the information elsewhere....hope this brainstorm helps anyone........'pal.......however, folks, if growing AGs is what you do for a living, could i please trade places with you???!

2/6/2003 1:01:01 PM

Southeast

I flag and bag my females the night before as well. Works great and saves time when youre half asleep at 6 am. Dave

2/6/2003 7:01:22 PM