Okay, all you advanced iris breeders,
This seedling has created a conundrum. 05-133-06: Beau Zam X Dresden Dancer. The cross was based on fall form. It doesn't appear that I got the fall form I was looking for.
I was not pleased with a plain white bloom with yellow beard. A nearly identical sibling has already been discarded; that one had no substance, no height, and none of the "pin tucks" around the edges that this one has. I was hoping for more interest in the beard... at least.
But, this one caught my attention before there was a stalk because the foliage is very wide, wide enough to stand out in my shoulder to shoulder seedling beds. Wide enough I took a picture of it and labeled the picture "BEEG foliage". I also noted the PBF, but that's just a notation.
When she bloomed, . o O (she's a bit of a tomboy, but "cleans up nice"), she stood head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the seedling bed, and she stayed erect even through a windstorm that had Total Recall laying down. That, of course, draws attention to the stalk.
So here are a few shots of the stalk. Two stalks, three year clump. One stalk has a pod held high at terminal, the other I broke off for the clean shot. The terminal and lowest branch were double socketed.
Something new I'm trying is measuring the "calibre" of the stalk at the base at the natual break off point, this one is 24/30ths of an inch, (I guess that's really 4/5ths.) Total Recall and Jesse's Song both measured the same 20/30ths or 2/3rds inch.
So the question is... would you save any seedling "just" for the sake of the stalk/ branching? | 
