6/29/14 update

Good rain every few days lately so there's been no need to water yet. I picked a small flamme and one HC this week;   a few others are turning.   Won't be long now.   Today I forgot to bring the twine, but instead I did 5 cross attempts. Collected pollen on cut wedges of black paper plates - that worked ok for collecting.  I am pretty good now at talking apart the flowers by hand without damaging the pistil - 5 for 5 today.  So I did the following. All are recorded in format female x male.  1 & 2: IR X BFT.  not really sure if I got BFT pollen or just tiny dust? 3&4: IR X CP.  here I know I got a good pollen shake from CP.  5. BFT x IR, good pollen.  Not using bags or anything to cover the pistils as I think they are more trouble than they are worth .