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Leftwood wrote:
Dirty crosses are with flowers that have just opened that day, and hopefully no volunteer pollen has found its way to the pistil. With many of my species lilies, fertilization won't occur unless I hand pollinate anyway.

Clean means I opened the bud and protected the stigma prior to the blossom opening.

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