Re: HYB: Broad falls & pod set (was hybridizers/education)

--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:

" If you have time & kept notes, I'm curious what success rate you had
> making crosses this year."--Linda Mann

Neil responds:

Most of my deliberate crosses took this year for a change.  There 
were some accidents, however.  One of the tenant's cats went around 
breaking down iris and breaking off my crosses (that cat 
disappeared....), Verbena bud moth got into some others.

There were several spontaneous pods set that I left, thinking them of 
interest--such as on Fogbound, Braggadocio and Lotus Land.  Every one 
of them was an empty balloon but one.  The exception was on LADY EMMA!
  I thought the Lady was sterile, but she set a pod on her own.  
Another case of Bud moth got many of the seeds, however, but I did 
get a few from the remaining segments.

I believe the wierd winter and spring weather may be have been 
responsible for the odd results.  Nearly all our primary bloom was 
lost to the March freeze which dropped our temps from the mid 
seventies to 22 degrees in a matter of hours (as often happens for 
you, too).  High seventies during December, then twenties in March.  
Oh my.

Due to my ongoing illness and doctor's orders about not bending over, 
doing much, most of my gardening this year has been by proxy.  My 
daughter has come from Middle Tennessee three times to weed, clean, 
plant, reset and such.  A couple of friends here helped prepare the 
new beds for seedings, which are growing lustily despite the drought 
(thanks to very costly city water), and I have had a crop of borers 
that is unreal since I was unable to spray.  Never again!  I'll find 
a way.

Neil Mogensen   z 6b/7a or whatever, near Asheville/Hendersonville, NC



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