God bless you for doing this. This is probably one of the best instructional videos on the entire Youtube. I have no idea how I ended up watching this, but I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
Timing is really critical. Silks only last for a week or so and pollen dies within 10-30 minutes. That is why watching for silks and then setting up tassels the evening before is such a big part of success. The other parts are biosecurity, so bagging while the pollen is not flying, keeping ears covered before silk emergence, keeping hands out of bags and off of silks, and immediate re-covering of ears help too. Good Luck!
Every tassel makes much more pollen than needed for one ear. The chain sib method uses just one tassel one time for one ear in order to make sure of equal participation of all parents in the population. It is much easier to bag the entire tassel in order to catch the pollen and probably better for thorough control. These things said, in other crossing approaches, such as making hybrids, I have seen the pollen of one tassel used to pollinate many ears.
I hope this is not a duplication of the message that I just posted, or so I thought. Anyway, I think I'll try again this year. I have some Mirai corn, and I want to see if it's as revolutionary and sensational as touted. This time I'll follow your instructions to the letter, especially as regards timing. It now seems to me that that's the most important thing to get right, that and "bagging' it. I didn't do that last year.
Just what I wanted. I could have used it last year, and it encourages me to try growing corn again this year even though I only have room for a few stalks. I do have a question, though: are you saying that I can only pollinate one ear with one tassel?, and by "tassel" I mean the entire tassel assemblage at the top of the stalk. In other words, do you have to use the pollen production of all tassel "fingers" to pollinate only one ear of corn?
God bless you for doing this. This is probably one of the best instructional videos on the entire Youtube. I have no idea how I ended up watching this, but I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
With thanks and greetings from Iran
disndat11 10 months ago
Dear Quabledistockficklepo:
Timing is really critical. Silks only last for a week or so and pollen dies within 10-30 minutes. That is why watching for silks and then setting up tassels the evening before is such a big part of success. The other parts are biosecurity, so bagging while the pollen is not flying, keeping ears covered before silk emergence, keeping hands out of bags and off of silks, and immediate re-covering of ears help too. Good Luck!
FarmBreeder99 1 year ago
Dear QUABLEDISTOCKFICKLEPO:
Every tassel makes much more pollen than needed for one ear. The chain sib method uses just one tassel one time for one ear in order to make sure of equal participation of all parents in the population. It is much easier to bag the entire tassel in order to catch the pollen and probably better for thorough control. These things said, in other crossing approaches, such as making hybrids, I have seen the pollen of one tassel used to pollinate many ears.
FarmBreeder99 1 year ago
I hope this is not a duplication of the message that I just posted, or so I thought. Anyway, I think I'll try again this year. I have some Mirai corn, and I want to see if it's as revolutionary and sensational as touted. This time I'll follow your instructions to the letter, especially as regards timing. It now seems to me that that's the most important thing to get right, that and "bagging' it. I didn't do that last year.
QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO 1 year ago
Just what I wanted. I could have used it last year, and it encourages me to try growing corn again this year even though I only have room for a few stalks. I do have a question, though: are you saying that I can only pollinate one ear with one tassel?, and by "tassel" I mean the entire tassel assemblage at the top of the stalk. In other words, do you have to use the pollen production of all tassel "fingers" to pollinate only one ear of corn?
QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO 1 year ago
very clear
liw03 1 year ago