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Marking crosses on tiny flowers
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Posted by DirtMonkey z8 OR (My Page) on Sun, Jun 6, 04 at 4:25
| I have a couple summer projects in mind here that involve plants with really really tiny flowers. I'm planning to make a series of markers, or I'll never find the seeds.. i.e. one of "This Plant", one for "This Section/Branch" etc... but how does one go about marking individual ovaries when the pedicels are way to small to tie any kind of visible string to? Is there a safe, weatherproof paint or something that can be used on most plants? I've noticed that my tree-seal works, but it's not exactly practical to mark with a black-brown color :/
I've also thought about removing all but the flowers I'm working with on a stem, but that seems risky and impractical.
I'm talking about things with small clustered flowers like thymes.
Vincent |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Marking crosses on tiny flowers
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| I think your idea to remove the flowers not involved in the cross is the way to go. Then just number your plants and keep your records on paper only (or possibly on a marker not attached to the plant). |
RE: Marking crosses on tiny flowers
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| agree. one plant or one definate stem = 1 no one said is was easy being a plant gigalo... froggy |
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