Re: HYB: Murphy's Laws
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Murphy's Laws
- From: o*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:54:26 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/2002 1:53:30 AM Central Daylight Time,
irises@senet.com.au writes:
> Subj:[iris-talk] HYB: Murphy's Laws
> Date:4/27/2002 1:53:30 AM Central Daylight Time
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> Hi
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> While sorting some of my seedlings I have been postulating Myphy's Laws of
> hybridizing. I know this isn't a complete list and look forward to your
> contributions.
>
> Here goes
>
> MURPHY'S LAW OF HYBRIDISING
>
>
> 1, That iris you so desperately want to use as a pollen parent will a,
> never
> produce pollen or b, do so only when it is bucketing with rain.
>
> 2, The desirable pod parents will never set pod with the desirable pollen
> but will set readily with anything else you wave near it, or set heaps of
> bee pods.
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> 3, The plant that has almost every desirable feature you want, will turn
> out
> to be pod and pollen sterile.
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> 4, The more anticipated the cross the less likely it is to take. Conversely
> the "oh well, I'll give it a go and see what happens" cross will almost
> always take.
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> 5, If you get do eventually get 10 seeds in a pod from a cross you're
> excited about, don't worry they'll never germinate. The pod from the
> mediocre cross will produce 70 seeds and each one will germinate.
>
> 6, Seedlings that have heaps of increase and are disease free produce
> terrible blooms. Lovely blooms with good form only grow on disease prone
> plants with poor increase.
>
> 6, If you finally get the colour you want, the form will be awful and vice
> versa.
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>
> So why do we do it????
>
> Because we're eternal optimists who believe we can defeat Murphy and
> occassionally do!
>
> Colleen Modra
> Adelaide Hills
> South Australia
> zone 8/9
> irises@senet.com.au
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Well said Colleen. I suggest the following solution. Since some of us call
the game hybridising, and some of us call the game hybridizing, and Murphey's
law is an incontrivertable truth, we should rename the game hybridiceing.
Bill Burleson 7a/b
Smilin' in Old South Iris Society where the pollen is stickin' today.
Overcast, grey, cool day! 54 degrees. Bloom season runnin' maybe two weeks
late.
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