Glossary
Pollen
Growers call it the yellow dust the anthers carry. It is the half of a cross that travels, it loses strength within about a day at room temperature, and it can be dried and frozen for months, growers say.
Words that go with it
- Bagging (closed pollination)Growers call it tying a fine mesh bag over a flower bud before it opens, so insects…
- CrossGrowers call it putting pollen from one plant onto the flower of another, and the seed…
- OP (open pollinated)Growers call it seed where the mother is known — the fruit grew on it — but the pollen…
- Pollen parentGrowers call it the plant the pollen came from: the father of a cross.
- SeedlingGrowers call it a plant grown from seed, as against a cutting.
- Self-sterile (not self-fertile)Unable to make seed with its own pollen.
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