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Re: hybridizing...

 

Ken, I can't believe your JIs and pseuds are blooming already... let alone done!  Mine are weeks away!  Usually the very end of May or more likely in early June.

Help!  I'm trying to deduce the parentage of a cross I made 14 yrs ago.  I'd like another opinion from someone/anyone with Iris hybridizing expertise.  Could this seedling be a cross of "Alien Mist" and "Thornbird"?  I lost track of the actual cross records.  So I'm looking through my notes trying to narrow it down.  These seedlings exhibit minor spage agey-ness.  I've concluded one of the parents is likely to be Alien Mist.  But I'm iffy on the other being Thornbird.  Somehow I would have expected the flounces to be bigger.  But colorwise, Thornbird seems the most likely candidate.  My other crosses with Alien Mist were with arilbreds.  These flowers don't look very arilbred-y, however the rhizomes do.  I'm perplexed.

Sorry this is a bit OT for Iris-Species.  I applied pollen from this flower onto Iris tectorum alba, so if today's cross takes, I'd like to know who the grandparents were.  :-)

Thanks,
Dennis in Cincinnati



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Walker <k*@astound.net> wrote:


I've been mostly hand pollinating species, but I did try crossing Iris pseudacorus 'Gubijin' with the JI 'Springtime Melody'. I have three seedlings from that cross from last year. But this year there was only one bloom left on Gubijin when Springtime Melody bloomed and it doesn't appear to have taken. The other JI I have are all species forms; I like pseudatas with pale colors so I didn't try them.

Ken Walker
Concord, CA USA Zone 9


On 5/12/2013 5:35 PM, Dennis Kramb wrote:
 
I did something today I haven't done in a while... made some Iris crosses!  I crossed Satan's Mistress onto a few of my own seedlings, as well as onto Iris flavescens.  And I crossed some of my TB seedlings with Iris tectorum alba (both ways).

What's everybody else crossing this season?  :-)





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