Re: HYB:Hybridizing quiz again

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:22 PM, J. Griffin Crump <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:

This is to test your hybridizing knowledge.

 

Last September 11, I posted photos of LYNSEY ALEXANDRA and my seedling 20Q5 and asked why I would cross them.  You smarties guessed the answer right away (keep 20Q5's rich colors and get LA's broader falls.).

 

Night before last, I visited one of my distant seedling plots that rain had kept me out of to see if there was anything I might take to the Fredericksburg Area Iris Society show the next morning.  More rain was pending, so anything I wanted to take would have to be cut that evening.  I saw that 07U8, a seedling from the above cross, had one completely spent blossom, but others might bloom overnight.  I cut it.  The next morning, no other buds had opened and I doubted that any would before the judging.  I took it anyhow.

 

Quiz questions:  Why did I take it and why did it win "best seedling"?  Clue:  The answer to both questions is the same.  --  Griff

 

Zone 7 along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, in Virginia