Re: HYB: Murphy's Laws

So, true.  We carefully plan our crosses, but they hardly ever go according to plan.  Oh well, some of those haphazardly bred things are interesting.
Francelle Edwards   Glendale,  AZ  Zone 9
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colleen Modra 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:20 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: Murphy's Laws


  Hi

  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.

  3, The plant that has almost every desirable feature you want, will turn out
  to be pod and pollen sterile.

  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.

  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.


  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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