Re: Re: HYB MTB Persona's children

Yes, you are right, if we want to have enough seeds we have to have more than one pod per cross, of course, how stupid of me!
but i think you're over doing it a bit! You have at least 3 dozen in there!
Don't leave them in this plastic bad or they will rot!
 
 
 
 
 About  the potential of things that haven't been used enough in the past,  i agree with you!
 
For example:
I've  used good old Susan Bliss this year, pollinated it with Avona, in order to give the newest the potential lying in that very old but fabulous plant, with amazing branching and pink colour with bright yellow beards  for the time (1922)!
Of course, it will take a couple of generations to overcome the old shape and poor texture, (but with Barry's curly irises, it will be fast!) and  i'm sure Susan Bliss will give an extra plus to the new line.
Terry JOHNSON has been bold enough to offer a foster home to this cross, so it's New Zealand who will see the impact of Susan Bliss on a new line of breeding!
 
 
 
By using that tiny Mellita, you've brought sth new i'm sure, and Clown Pants is the living proof of it!
 
I's like Iris Astrachanica , Persona comes from it, but also Astra Girl, and to top it all, look at the parentage of this one:
 

 KEIRITH (Jean Witt, R. 1997) Sdlg. 91-07-G9. MTB, 17-20" (43-51 cm), M

S. pale yellow, lightly freckled pale lavender; style arms very pale yellow; F. white, dotted and veined lavender, reverse yellow; beards yellow, hairs tipped brown; lightly ruffled; slight fragrance. Susan Bliss X I. astrachanica. Aitken's Salmon Creek 1998

Yes, Susan Bliss!!!!! I couldn't beleive it when i found it in the data base!

I would love to see what it looks like. Can someone  post a picture?

 

 

Yes, it's time we take the risk to go one step behing, in order to jump forward !

 

 

Loïc
 
----- Original Message -----
From: t*@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: HYB MTB Persona's children

Hello Loïc,
I'll be anxious to see more of your mixed ploidy seedlings. I also think that there is a great potential for good in these crosses. Neil Mogensen had expressed similar thoughts: having studied iris history and pedigrees extensively, he had concluded that the genetic base of modern Tall Beardeds remains relatively narrow. Because the few breakthrough seedlings from tetraploid/diploid crossings were such an improvement over the previously known diploids, they were used very heavily to form the foundation of our modern Tall Beardeds. Much of the variability that existed in the old diploids was overlooked in the process. There have obviously been instances where other germplasm has been introduced into the TB genepool (like fairly well documented infusions of Iris aphylla). But Neil thought [and I strongly agree] that great things would come from the addition of variability via more new breeding material of tetraploid/diploid mixed parentage.
I can hardly wait to see how your lines develop!

Oh and about (ab)using Clown Pants -- you'll see, it won't mind a bit.

I still haven't gotten tired of using it. See the attached picture of 2008 pod harvest from 'Bach Fugue' X 'Clown Pants' as an example.

Best wishes, Tom

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Loïc wrote:
...i think it's difficult to draw definitive conclusions, because for me, (diplo X tetra) crosses or (tetra X diplo ) ones seem to work the same : very disapointing, but also terribly exciting at the same time, so much seems to be held in these so rare and precious odd surviving seeds!

Next year, Clown Pants will be (ab)used to the limits on both sides of the ocean !

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