Re: HYB: pod success


I forgot the pollen cross to Flights of Fancy:  another lumina, Mind 
Reader.  I am eagerly awaiting the progeny of that one!
Patricia


--- In iris-talk@y..., "pinkirises" <pbrooks@w...> wrote:
> John,
> 
> I've tried to get just such a thread started, naming our most 
> successful pod and pollen parents.  I'd love the info, even if it 
> wouldn't automatically apply to all our climatic et al conditions.
> 
> My successful crosses this year were as follows:
> 
> POLLEN:
> 
> Basso SDB
> Sweet Reflection TB
> Aaron's Rod TB
> Lilac Wine TB
> Electrique TB (my consistently strongest pollen)
> Lullaby of Spring TB
> Hook TB (is that yours, John?)
> Manuscript TB
> Cranberry Ice TB
> Mystery Blush TB
> Shirley M TB
> My Jodie TB
> Boudoir TB
> Divine TB
> My Girl TB
> 
> POD:
> 
> Wee Fragrance SDB
> Well Suited SDB
> Flights of Fancy TB
> Lullaby of Spring TB (last year also)
> Conspiracy TB
> Magic Wish TB
> Bet Twice TB
> Prancing Pony TB
> Double Agent TB (2 pods)
> Misty Breanne TB (2 pods)
> Mauvelous TB
> Inaugural Ball TB (last year also)
> Gothic TB (last year also)
> Five O'Clock World TB
> Pagan Goddess TB
> TB sent as Private First Class
> Halo in Pink TB
> 
> Patricia Brooks
> Whidbey Island, WA, zone 8
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In iris-talk@y..., jpvhook@a... wrote:
> > Linda,
> > 
> >        Next spring try breaking off the flowers that you are 
going 
> to use and 
> > take them in the house put them in water for the anthers to get 
> fluffy . Then 
> > make you crosses
> > on freshly opened flowers. If for some reason you can't make the 
> cross ! I 
> > put the anthers in 7 day pill holders from the drug store . I put 
> tape on the 
> > out side and use a
> > marker to put the iris names on . Some times the iris we want to 
> use blooms 
> > later !
> > Ed Roberts told me to do this and my percentage of takes went up. 
> Thanks too 
> > a good friend !!!! I will post some of my favorite pollen and pod 
> parents. 
> > 
> > Your friend John Van Hook Zone 6 USA 
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


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