Re: HYB:REB:cultivars

Mike, Thanks so much for the information!? Anyone else?? 

<<Platinum is a nice parent, giving ruffly children. Good to cross it with something taller as it has tendency to produce short stuff.>>


Betty W/KY/zone 6


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Subject: Re: [iris] HYB:REB:cultivars


Platinum is a nice parent, giving ruffly children. Good to cross it with something taller as it has tendency to produce short stuff. Midnight Caller hasn't been a good parent for me, produces narrow, strappy and ugly hafty kids. Haven't used the others.?
Mike Sutton?
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> Good Morning Griff and anyone not gone to convention.??
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> Although I've been making crosses since 1986, there are a number of > reputable reblooming?irises that I've?not tried in breeding.? Does anyone > have any experience with seedlings from the following list of cultivars??
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> Silver Dividends (I appreciate any information on this one)?
> Grace Thomas?
> Platinum?
> Midnight Caller?
> Luminosity (wasn't crazy about the branching on this one when it bloomed > in the fall of 2005)??
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> Grace Thomas, being a child of Spirit of Memphis, might breed the ring > pattern we discussed earlier in the year?? That's a question in case > anyone has made crosses in that direction.??
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> These and several others have large clumps this year, > insuring?major?opportunity if the freeze, or last years drough, didn't > bother them.??There are no obvious problems.? There have been two nights > below freezing with accompanying frost.? Monday night was the worst of the > two.???
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> Betty W/zone 6/KY/Bridge In Time???
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