Re: HYB: thermo-hygrometer

--- In iris-talk@y..., oneofcultivars@a... wrote:
"Shootin' hoops poorly here and thinkin'  50% is an astronomical 
percentage of takes, -- Bill Burleson 7a/b  Old South Iris Society

Bill, I think your metaphor of shooting hoops is an excellent one.  
Pods don't form if one doesn't try.

Over the years I think I have developed a "feel" for making crosses, 
but sometimes try anyway even if I don't expect success.  Few of 
those ever form pods, I believe.  I just keep hoping.

As to "50%" -- that is at best, not over-all performance.  On the 
order of 30% is a more typical average.  There are those few days, 
hours, however, when just about everything takes.  I seem to have hit 
those right on this year.  I just didn't make many crosses.  The 
basketball stayed in the shed, so to speak.

One thing of note--and I have seen other posts to this effect--there 
were an astonishing number of "balloon" pods formed this year.  I 
left them on thinking seeds from these potential parents might be 
useful.  No seeds!  I believe the frosts and rapid shifts in extreme 
weather during stalk development may have been a factor.

Linda, I am glad you got this thread going.  Your weather and mine 
are quite similar, but there is one difference I did note on my visit 
to your home and garden.  Where I grow my principal breeding stock is 
in an area with soil much deeper and much more nutritionally rich 
(thanks to a lot of additions!) than that of most of your iris beds.  
I also have somewhat fewer frosts, but not THAT many fewer. I seemed 
to have had more damage this year than you reported from the March 
freezes. The small amount of bloom I had was on secondary fans 
mostly, thus developing somewhat later than usual.  I believe this 
may have had an effect on fertility and pollen quality.

Neil Mogensen  z 6b/7a Arden (between Asheville and Hendersonville) 
NC 



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