HYB: Clarence's Pollen; was IB: Hybridizing Intermediates

Wow, Betty, that's great. For sure I'm using old information and haven't 
been keeping up. The last thing I remember was Clarence Mahan saying that 
Clarence the iris was pod fertile and Suky the iris was pollen fertile. It 
was a great joke back about ten years ago.

I looked in the Iris Register and found three irises registered &/or 
introduced with Clarence as the pollen parent: Lloyd's Gate of Henna, Don 
Spoon's Silent Wings, and your Serenity Returns. And, there were four where 
Clarence is the pod parent.

Do you find the pollen difficult or easy to work with?

Suky as pod parent: Sterling Innerst's "Over and Over" and Glenn 
Stoneking-Jones' "Rough and Ready."  All the others were as pollen parent. I 
have Suky too but it might not bloom this year.

Clarence the iris is about to open its terminal flower, even tho it feels a 
bit crisp, but the other buds feel moister, so I'll plan to save pollen from 
all the flowers and see what happens. At least I can use it on Protocol if 
nothing else decides to bloom, and freeze the rest.

Thanks for the info!   -- Barb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:55 PM
Subject: [iris] {Disarmed} Fwd: [iris-photos] IB: Hybridizing Intermediates


| In a message dated 4/16/2007 4:42:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
| Autmirislvr@aol.com writes:
|
|
| In a message dated 4/16/2007 2:46:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
| barbjohnson_62@hotmail.com wrote:
|
| <<Just behind it is CLARENCE with 6 buds. | Both are pod instead  of 
pollen
| fertile so I can't cross them. >>
|
| One of my strongest groups of seedlings from 2006 is Tara's Choice X 
Clarence.

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