Carrie wrote >My Swedish friend, Susann uses cotton buds to cross-pollinate...they, too, >could be stuck in pot/ground next to the plant...what a good idea! Cotton >buds are very cheap indeed. Just in case we call them a different name to US >and other places, these are the small plastic/paper sticks with tight wraps >of cotton wool each eand...used to clean ears etc.
I've tried these (called "Q-tips" in the USA, probably a proprietary name), but I'm not sure that enough of the pollen comes free from the cotton. Another implement I tried was pipe cleaners (the kind with fuzz wrapped up in wire), but they may have the same problem. Little brushes seem better because, as Jim SHields described, you can clean and reuse them many times. Jane McGary _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
