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Janis thank you for all our posts I am able to enjoy and learn so much from your collection.Here are a few from our garden this week, (Attachment Link) Mostly Crocus pulchellus and hybrids. (Attachment Link) C. nudiflorus and C. speciosus (Attachment Link) C. pulchellus
I was very happy to see my first flower of Crocus nerimaniae that I have got this year.
To be able to cross pollinate within species and make hybrids I have frozen pollens of scharojanii.I cut of the anthers, put them in a small glassine envelope and put this in a empty Jam glass with silica gel to dry them (at room temperature). Next day I put the envelope in a zip lock plastic bag with some silica gel and put them in the freezer at -18C.Two months later, I successfully pollinated Crocus vallicola to get the hybrid scharojanii flavus. That was 3 years ago, and the corms are now 6-10 mm as shown here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16551.0I have read somewhere that Crocus pollen are viable for several years if kept dryed and frozen at low temperatures. I will try to find the link to that article.Poul