How to harvest bearded iris seeds from the seed pods

Between late summer and early autumn the seed pods of bearded irises are finally ripen and start to split open: it is very important to protect them while growing with a net, both to avoid damage by predators such as slugs and snails, but also to avoid loosing seeds when the seed pods split open releasing the seeds. After collection, place the seeds in a cool dry place and label them with the name of the variety pollinated (pod parent), and if you know it, the variety used for pollination (pollen parent), unless, as in this case, you self pollinated your iris, using the pollen of the iris to pollinate the same plant. I hope that you enjoyed the video, and if you liked it and you would like to support my YouTube garden channel and have regular updates, it would be great if you would subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button "subscribe". Also, any comments, positive or negative, is very welcome as well as any of your enquiries, to which I will try to respond as soon as possible. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in my next video. links to the complete list of the videos of the series: how to sow bearded iris seeds    • How to sow tall bearded Iris seeds   how to harvest iris seeds    • How to harvest bearded iris seeds from the...   how to pollinate bearded irises    • How to hand pollinate Irises. Iris flower ...   Tulip propagation by seeds part 1, choosing viable seeds    • Tulip propagation by seed part 1: how to c...   Tulip propagation by seeds part 2, sowing tulip seeds    • Tulip propagation by seed part 2: how to s...   Tulip propagation by seeds part 3 and bearded iris seed germination    • Tulip propagation by seed part 3 and tall ...   how to pollinate tulips , go at 03:40 of this video, but definitely better use freshly opened flowers, before they start fading    • Tulip pollination with the late single Dar...