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Breeding annonas with ‘Painter’ as pollen parent.
Guanabanus:
I prefer to pollinate female-stage flowers on a tree when that tree's male-stage flowers are shedding pollen, or within the next couple of hours, or at the latest, when the male-stage flowers are dropping petals, which is when it would be natural for freshly exposed beetles covered with pollen to go seek out a female-stage flower to shelter in.
If you pollinate apparently female-stage flowers later than that, there may not be any remaining receptivity, especially in dry weather.
Galatians522:
--- Quote from: Guanabanus on June 26, 2022, 10:41:37 PM ---One should list first the seed parent, which is also known as the mother tree: in other words, the tree with the flower into which you stuff pollen.
Then X.
Then pollen parent.
Cherilata varieties are: Annona cherimola variety X Annona reticulata variety. If it were the other way around, it would be a Retimoya.
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Thank you, now if only I can remember that....
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