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Re: [iris] Torchlight Parade

Dave -- Thanks for the bloom report.  If planted in full sun, TORCHLIGHT PARADE should eventually "bust loose", give you 8 or more buds and multiply strongly.  It was a slow starter here, too, as I have probably mentioned.
 
I like your garden arrangement idea and only wish I had the space to do likewise.  I have AMIGO and AMIGO'S GUITAR, but have never tried to use them in hybridizing.  WABASH is fertile both ways, although its seed production is sparse, in my experience.  TORCHLIGHT PARADE is pollen potent, as you can see from the list of sprouts I posted earlier today.  I'm not sure if I've ever tried to set seed on it.
 
I'm attaching a photo of 985R4, from which I have 6 just-sprouted seedlings with TORCHLIGHT PARADE as the pollen parent.  I'm hoping for something wild as a result.
 
Since you like the old velvets and seem to be willing to work with them, I'd encourage you to get hold of some pieces of TRUDY, which is another recessive amoena, and cross it with WABASH.  You'll get jewel colors.  I dropped that line because of space problems and have always regretted it.  --  Griff
 
zone 7 in Virginia 
 
 
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From: <D*@cabq.gov>
To: <i*@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 2:55 PM
Subject: [iris] TB: Torchlight Parade

> Just wanted to mention that the 'Torchlight Parade' I was so kindly given
> last year flowered this year.  It only made one stalk with only two
> flowers, but I'm surprised it flowered at all since it was it's first
> growing season in the ground.  I like the flower a lot, and it indeed does
> look like a yellow and "red" version of 'Wabash'.  It also has strong PBF.
>
> I am now starting a new section in my garden.  It will probably stay small,
> but it is for the old fashioned smallish bicolor or contrasting bitone Iris
> that are tetraploid, but resemble the old diploids.  These look out of
> place with the majority of much larger and stockier, often more modern
> tetraploid TB's, but they also seem out of place with the diploids.  Among
> the TB's they tend to get lost.  Four that come to mind are 'Amigo', 'Shah
> Jehan', 'Wabash', and 'Torchlight Parade', but I'll be watching for others.
>
> I actually tried cross pollinating all four of these this year, but I got
> no fruit on any of them.  'Amigo' and 'Shah Jehan' made no good pollen, but
> 'Wabash' and 'Torchlight Parade' were loaded with lots of nice fluffy
> stuff.
>
>
> Dave
>
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