Originally posted by ctdahle:
No, yours are fine. Captain Dirt is talking about keeping the flowers from being cross pollinated. Cross pollination would give him hybrid seeds, resulting in plants for next year that may have undesireable characteristics. He does not want to create hybrids. He wants to keep a pure strain for next year's crop.
CD, your question peaked my interest. I found a treasure trove of sunflower information here
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/SoilCrop/extension/CropVar/sunflower.htmThere is a whole lot to read and I haven
t been through it all, but pollination is mentioned, and presumably since they are doing trials, they must have some way of preventing cross pollination.
