Re: TB: escaping the compost pile

Why not name it and introduce it?   It obviously has many good traits.  
Is there any thing wrong with it that you haven't mentioned -- other 
than not being an AB?   It looks wonderful to me.  
                                                          Betty Gunther
                                                          Los Alamos, NM.  

Donald Eaves wrote:
>
> This is a sibling to the velvet top RUSTLER X SATAN'S MISTRESS. And 
> sort of
> an answer to Griff's hope I'm working with that one. TB seedlings are 
> more
> at risk of being tossed on the compost pile than any other seedlings. AB
> seedlings have the advantage of containing aril genes and that buys them
> more time and elicits more patience. The TB seedlings are basically just
> grown so they can be grown with AB seedlings for comparison. I was musing
> about those that have managed to remain here and assessing the reasons 
> why.
> In the case of the velvet top sibling, it the quirky velvet top. So some
> kind of quirky trait that interests me or that I like will buy them time.
> In the case of this one, it's a combination of plentiful bloom and 
> foliage
> that tends to be healthier than most iris here. Most TB seedlings get 
> a 2nd
> year before they're tossed, but there have been some that were so
> unappealing they went immediately after bloom. After the 2nd year, they
> either have that appealing quirk or they have to do what this one does 
> - and
> they have to do it every year barring natural disasters that prevent it.
> I've had some that did this multiple seasons and then skipped and they 
> are
> gone. It's so much easier to toss one when the memory of how they looked
> isn't recent. But I don't really daub around with them much. Even when I
> do it's mostly with AB pollen. This one has earned another year here.
> Aside from reliable bloom, this plant gets high marks for healthy 
> foliage.
> Everything here always has incipient leaf spot that is waiting to get 
> out of
> control if the weather conditions are right. This plant has very few 
> spots
> and when leafspot is rampant, it's been highly resistant. I do hope those
> that made it Austin saw things blooming like this.
>
> I don't know how the size of these photos fit with what's allowed. If I
> check the properties in my photo storage the kbs are different than if I
> open them and check the properties. I sent this to my own email before
> sending here to the list and the kbs were yet different again. Not
> significant differences, but different. I don't understand that. Unlike
> Linda, I do like to see the whole clump because that tells more about
> performance and the overall structure of a blooming plant. Bloomstalks 
> give
> varying effects - caps, open and airy, bunching and on and on. But taking
> her suggestion I posted details of the clump photo. The clump photo is
> reduced 80-85% (not exactly sure because I continued to reduce and not 
> sure
> if the subsequent reductions are the same as with the beginning picture),
> The foliage section was reduced 50% (one more 5% reduction and the leaves
> began to have serrated edges), and the detail of the bloom was reduced 
> 60%
> (or maybe a bit more, but I know at least 60%). Frankly, I don't think 
> the
> reduced size of the clump photo was worth posting, but without it these
> details from it wouldn't tell as much either. Not a satisfactory 
> tradeoff,
> but something.
>
> Donald Eaves
> donald@eastland.net <d*@eastland.net>
> Texas Zone 7b, USA
>
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