Re: Mutations and seedlings
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Mutations and seedlings
- From: P* &* Y* T* <t*@dynamite.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:36:33 -0600 (MDT)
At 22:07 10/04/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> >> Thought I would let everyone know that our mutated seedling TB with the
>> >> bloom split down the middle, one side yellow and white the other side
peach
>> >> and white, is blooming again. . . . I would like to know what people
>> >>think >> of the iris and if anybody has any ideas as to why it did this.
>> >
>Dennis -- The cross that produced my 93B11 was TRUDY x WABASH. The rest
>of the seedlings from this cross were normal. Another pod of the same
>cross produced only normal seedlings. Mutations are rare. When they
>occur, the challenge is to see whether the trait can be passed on
>through breeding. I have seedlings coming up now from crosses of 93B11.
>
Well, I like the mutation. I'd love a piece of it, but there's no way
it'll get ovver here in the foreseeable millenia!!!!! I do hope that the
seeds pass on some interesting offspring and that the split colour is
"fixable" (if you know what I mean). If it is discovered that it can be
fixed, or even if not and you'd like to just send some, then I'd be mighty
appreciative of some seeds involving the split colour parent. It'd
certainly add an even greater degree of anticipation to the seedlings first
flowering.
Anyhow, the upshot of this is that if you have any spare seeds from crosses
with 93B11 then feel free to send them this way so taht we might just have
a vague chance of seeing something like it in the flesh in Australia.
Cheers.
Paul Tyerman (Canberra, Australia)
