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Re: Re: hybridizing...

 

Spurias, foetidissima, Louisianas, and fulva, just started blooming.  Virginica & versicolor are still going strong.  Frozen LA pollen from 2002 seems to be viable.  9 hours after applying it to two freshly opened flowers, they shriveled up!  I'm still waiting for ensata, brevicaulis, and a few other species to bloom.

Yesterday morning I tried to cross Iris foetidissima with Spuria "Blue Spiderweb" but I was thwarted.  The pollen wasn't ready on one, and the stigmatic lips weren't ready on the other.  So grudgingly I went off to work.  By the time I got home again, a nasty storm with high winds had ruined all the pollen.

Before I went to bed last night I checked the weather radar... a HUGE band of storms was crossing Illinois, heading towards Ohio.  I didn't set my alarm clock, but my phone beeped at 6:30am and woke me up.  I checked the weather radar, and the band of storms was almost here!  I threw some clothes on... ran outside with my tweezers... et voila!  fresh pollen on some foetidissma flowers.  I harvested it, crossed it onto that giant Spuria, then saw that the anthers on the Spuria had fresh pollen too!!  (How was that even possible after that HUGE downpour yesterday?  Who cares!)  So I was able to make the reverse cross too.

Spuria pollen is sooooo orange.  It's weird.  And the ants!  I could do without all those ants *everywhere* on Spuria & foetidissima flowers.

This is an old photo of this clone of Iris foetidissima (which came from Colin Rigby).  I tend not to re-photograph flowers that I already have plenty of pictures of.

Dennis in Cincinnati

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