Re: HYB: pod success
- Subject: Re: HYB: pod success
- From: "pinkirises" p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 04:14:55 -0000
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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