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Re: Re: Re: Tectorum X bearded update

Walter wrote:
---It has been a while since I've read "The World of
Iris", but I also remember it as you do.  That would
be an advantage of going to tetraploid I. tectorum X
modern TBs [to make use of the dominant white]. But
getting the tetraploid tectorum is a problem in
itself.

---Does anyone here know what color the F1 of I.
variegata x I. pallida is?  Purple, if I remember
right.  But I haven't made the cross myself, and I am
not sure I remember what I read.

---As I get older, I am thinking that one of these
years I'll be able to toss my job and do this full
time.  I can dream, can't I?
Walter

Walter,
I plan to try converting tectorum to tetraploid
myself, since there doesn't seem to be a tetraploid
form available anymore (if ever). I think that using a
tetraploid tectorum with tetraploid Tall Beardeds, is
the best strategy for producing a diverse and also
fertile new type of iris. 
Iris pallida X variegata has typically given me purple
bitones, but I've also gotten plicatas and also ones
with quite a bit of yellow blended in with the purple.
Four typical F1 seedlings are pictured in the image I
attached to a previous posting (I'll attach again for
ease of finding). The pallida X variegata F1 are the
four pictures grouped together on the bottom left. If
you can't see e-mail attachments, you can see the
image here at the archives
(http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-species/nov05/msg00012.html).
As for your dream of doing plant breeding full-time,
I'm dreaming of doing the same some day. For now
though, I guess I can't "quit my day-job". So until
that day, we'll just have to fit in whatever
hybridizing we can. Best of luck to you.
Tom


	
		
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