FW: HYB:Hybridizing quiz again

 

 

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Francelle [mailto:fjmjedwards@qwest.net]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:48 PM
To: 'iris-photos@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [iris-photos] HYB:Hybridizing quiz again

 

It must have had beautiful branching, good placement of big colorful buds, and nothing more exciting showed up.

 

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

 

-----Original Message-----
From: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-photos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of J. Griffin Crump
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:22 PM
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iris-photos] HYB:Hybridizing quiz again

 

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 

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