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Monitoring commercial seed fields: Summary

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As flower standing crop declines over the season, the number of open, untripped flowers per raceme is reduced.

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When flowers are pollinated as quickly as they bloom, most racemes have < 5 open flowers.

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Notes:

A rule of thumb for the grower:
If there are fewer than 5 open, untripped flowers in bloom on a sample of racemes at the end of the day, pollination is going well.
Read on to see the data that lead to this rule of thumb.