It's not that it's forbidden, but even if some pods
make it before hard frost, some of course don't , and it' such a waste of effort
that, one day, i understand i might advise beginners not to
bother....
But since i'm still a beginner, full of naive
energy, not blasé yet, well, i did it again!
i admire your persistence at crossing all these
"ugly little ones", (like most judges would call them...), and i'm so happy more
people make crosses that will eventually bring something new, by using
neglected paths.
95 % of space in catalogues is taken by irises that
keep on passing the same genes, and even if there might be better shapes and bud
counts, it's sometimes hard to tell some from the others...
If Hager hadn't used the aphyllas, the Craigs
wouldn't have come that far with their little gems, and i wouldn't be dreaming
at night of all these exciting crosses that have never been made!
I will keep trying to daub diplo-Clown
Pants pollen on every tetra that will seem to be willing to get
it!
It's such a kick to try and beat the
odds!
Thanks for the pictures, it's always
inspiring!
Loïc
----- Original Message -----
From:
t*@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:15
PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: HYB autumn
pods
Wow Loïc! That's a lot of pods!
Just 3 days ago, I got impatient
enough that I cracked open the only two pods I had (from this years rebloom).
I didn't know that it wasn't advised to do crosses on rebloom. Both pods were
started in early September and had to be picked about two weeks ago because of
imminent dangerously cold weather. The bigger pod was completely empty -
"balloon pod". But the smaller one had 6 seeds.
The cross is veiny
rebloomer (RE3, from Iris cengialtii X CLOWN PANTS) pollinated by refrigerated
pollen from a non-reblooming seedling (I've been calling "the clean amoena").
It was the only pollen I had available.
I'll attach pictures of the
veiny rebloomer, clean amoena and the parentage of the clean amoena.
So
these seeds have a fairly complex parentage - primarily of species types -
with roughly half of their ancestry coming from pallida/cengialtii, a quarter
from suaveolens clones and a quarter from variegata/modern MTB.
My hope
will be to eventually get that nice clean white color and great fragrance of
the clean amoena combined with the rebloom of that CLOWN PANTS
seedling.
Best of luck to you with all of those pods!
Take care,
Tom
HYB autumn
pods
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To:
<iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: HYB autumn pods
From: "loic tasquier" <tasquierloic@cs.com>
Date:
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:53:04 +0100
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Here
is a picture of all the pods still remaining in the garden that have been
taken by surprise by 5 cm of snow...
They are now safe inside, i hope some
will manage to make some seeds, even though they have had a bit of
frost...
They are the ones i wouldn't have if i had followed the rule (
not to cross anything in the summer)...but i did cross them, (how could i
resist rebloomers!) and here i am, with pods in intensive care
now...
Loïc
