Re: Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
- From: F* E*
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:29:47 -0700
About 10 days. As soon as the flower dries and is about ready to drop off, the lower ovarian part should be green and growing. If it shrivels just after the flower does, you are out of luck,
Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9
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From: Dana Brown
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
Francelle,
How long after you make a cross can you tell it took?
Dana Brown
Malevil Iris Gardens
Pres. South Plains Iris Society
Region 17, Judges Training Chairperson
AIS, MIS, ASI, RIS, TBIS
Lubbock, TX 79403
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
d*@llano.net
-----Original Message-----
From: FRANCELLE EDWARDS [f*@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:50 PM
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
It sounds like one of my favorite color combinations.
I just planted nearly 400 little seedlings from last year and still have to
make a place for one more pot full. I won't have much planting to do next
year though because scarcely anything is taking. Out of about thirty tries,
I see the start of three pods. We have had temperatures in the upper 90's
with less than 10% humidity. I sympathize with iris problems caused by bad
weather. We just have a different kind of bad.
Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone9
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Mann
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
<I'd love to see a picture of this, Linda. In lieu of a picture, how
about giving us a description. What color is it? I'm proud that you
are going to send it to the convention. ....Right now I am growing 157
guest irises that I'm growing for the region 15 spring treck next year.
Some are wonderful. Some doesn't seem to be as good as some of my
seedlings. But the hybridizers shouldn't be ashamed of any of them.
That's what guest gardens are for, to see how they do in different
environments.> Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9
I know, thanks for the encouragement Francelle. But I just keep seeing
all its faults.
I posted a photo of one bloom at the end of October 2001, picked and
taken indoors, but it doesn't really do it justice & the colors are off
(too blue on my monitor). I can try again, but it looks so wretched
after being drowned, frozen, then fried, it won't look like much - lots
of leaves and short stalks. It's more or less a bicolor, pale lavender
fading to white standards and lavender fading to rosy lavender falls,
with a lot of freckled veining at the throat. Nothing to get excited
about as far as color and pattern go. But when I look at this clump and
compare it to the wretched looking AM & HM award winners trying to grow
here, it really looks phenominal. Some of them have tiny little MTB
sized flowers on tall skinny stalks, many bloomstalks are just
shriveling up, and several plants are going belly up as well.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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