Re: Re: CA frost

I have all sorts of pods forming on my 1/4 arilbred 'Scented Opals'.  I have been waiting three years to have enough blossoms to make crosses and have pollen from halfbreds.  It is somewhat pod fertile and has produced a couple of seedlings from it long ago.  Particularl instance, I used the 'Persian Pansy' pollen I mentioned earlier and so far they are swelling nicely.  We'll see if they take!

Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC  Zone 8


-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
>Sent: Apr 22, 2008 2:31 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: [iris] Re: CA frost
>
>They say change and variety is good for us, but this is not the kind of 
>change I would wish on anybody!
>
>My experience with daubing after these events is that fertility varies 
>all over the place.  Like Betty learned last year, pollen seems fine, 
>but nothing takes, at least in some crosses.  A clue will come from 
>later flowers - if anthers were ok on a cultivar before the freeze, but 
>shriveled in flowers that open after the freeze, it probably won't set pods.
>
>Unfortunately, the only way to find out for sure, is to try to make the 
>cross anyway.
>
>Some seem to be able to recover fertility quickly, others gradually 
>recover.  And like you've noticed, it can depend on where the stalk is 
>growing in the clump.  Sometimes, the outside stalk will be damaged 
>more, sometimes the other way around.
>
>That's good news that some blooms appear not to have suffered any damage 
>- a clue that they didn't stay below freezing very long.
>
>Keep us posted on how it goes.
>
><This is all new to me. Mike Sutton>
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