RE: Re: SPEC-X

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Heh, I'm sure I've got photos somewhere, but they're downright
uninteresting, just siblings from a single TB pod that was my first
attempt at hybridizing, back when I had nothing but garden-center
irises. They're various shades of dirty yellow and orange, and haven't
flowered in several years because I rarely weed them. I only recently
tried hybridizing again, and will clear them out when some of my new
spec-x bloom (though I've been neglecting those as well). I don't
normally get much seed at all, since I find it far too tempting to try
to wide-cross everything.

Sean Z.
Michigan

Quoting El Hutchison <e*@mymts.net>:

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> Do you have any pictures of your hybrids that you can share with us,
> Sean, please and thank you? If you've sent them before, I probably
> wasn't a member here then.
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> El
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> To: i*@yahoogroups.com
> From: z*@umich.edu
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:31:47 -0500
> Subject: Re: [iris-species] Re: SPEC-X
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> On the contrary, I do understand your point, I just disagree with it,
> and not even with most of it. The only thing I'm upset about is that
> you basically dismissed my argument out of hand, without even
> answering most of the questions I've asked trying to clarify my
> concerns. You also accused SIGNA members as a group as being
> narrow-minded, then threatened to take away our ability to influence
> the definition of SPEC-X, merely because some of us disagree.
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> As I said before, though, I retract any opinion I might have about
> SPEC-X, or anything having to do with AIS, as it appears I'm not
> knowledgeable enough to do so. I'm not a member of AIS, I have
> flowered precisely 7 of my own hybrids, and I certainly haven't done a
> thing to improve or promote SIGNA or AIS. As you point out, I'm
> probably one of the youngest members of SIGNA, so I will politely
> defer to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
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> Sean Z.