Re: HYB: Failed to produce pollen list
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Failed to produce pollen list
- From: o*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:34:03 EDT
In a message dated 4/26/2002 8:33:03 PM Central Daylight Time,
donald@eastland.net writes:
> Subj:Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Failed to produce pollen list
> Date:4/26/2002 8:33:03 PM Central Daylight Time
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> Hello Bill,
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> Can't help with your list, but I love this kind of information. I only
> grow
> ARCTIC EXPRESS from the list and it hasn't bloomed for me yet. It was
> doing
> pretty well in several locations in the Clark Gardens earlier this week,
> though. I wasn't tromping through their iris beds checking for pollen,
> though. Are there genetic causes for plants that produce blooms that
> consistently lack pollen?
My experience is grounded in daylilies. I do however believe most of the
hybridizing nuances to be transferable to irises. Genetically, some are pod
sterile. Some are pollen sterile. Some are both. The orange double daylily,
Kwanso, first imported into this country in 1700s or 1800s is both pod and
pollen infertile. Yet has readily propagated itself vegitativly to the point
it is often viewed as a native plant and sometime referred to as the "ditch
lilly".
In iris, some color families seem notoriously stingy with pollen particularly
blacks. I attribute this to hybridizing efforts seeking deeper, darker, color
saturation while ignoring other desirable plant characteristics. This is not
a criticism of such efforts just my perception of what I've observed here.
Some of the iris I listed have in the past produced pollen though they too
may have done so in small amounts. To me, pollen production is both genetic
and weather influenced.
Barbara My Love has not produced viable pollen here in the three years I've
grown it and may indeed be pollen infertile in my zone. I keep looking for
pollen because it is the only bloom I know in this color family that produces
such a "finished flower" look. Generally, this look is characteristic of many
Maryott introductions. I suppose I could go through the registration list and
look for progeny or for that matter call Bill Maryott and ask him. It's just
easier to post on iris talk and ask.
It's the beauty/finished look of the blooms that prompted my request for
pollen comment. I want to use these pollens. I'm somewhat lazy, I do not like
to stoop or bend, and detest the disappointment I experience when there is
not any pollen. The most viable solution I see is to hybridize taller irises.
Using a lot of Praetorian Guard and Pharaoh's Spirit pollen now.
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> >The following iris have thus far failed to produce pollen this year,
> >kindly comment if you have experienced exception and feel free to add
> >your non pollen producers this year to the list. Particularly
> >intrested in zone 7 comments.
> >
> >Barbara My Love
> >Happenstance
> >Fancy Dress
> >Alabaster Unicorn
> >Queen of Elegance
> >Arctic Express
> >Bye Bye Blues
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> Donald Eaves
> donald@eastland.net
> Texas Zone 7b, USA where there were disastrous floods yesterday 45 miles
> north and not a drop of rain here. Some pretty aggressive weeds are
> beginning to curl and dry up already.
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