Re: HYB: help - best breeders from Keppel larger blooms?

It is a bit too early for a good test in other hybridizers gardens. Most listed have only been blooming in other gardens for a season or two. I can tell you that Florentine silk grows small and blooms short here it also seems to have offspring that are smaller than average plants. Secret Rites has produced normal sized plants in its offspring. No blooms from either of their offspring yet, will have to wait until spring unless they are rebloom crossed. 
Mike Sutton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:31 AM
Subject: [iris] HYB: help - best breeders from Keppel larger blooms?



Maybe nobody can help me with this question, but never hurts to ask.
Which of this group is giving the nicest offspring? GYPSY LORD, JAZZ BAND, MYSTERIOUS WAYS, SECRET RITES, GLAMOUR PANTS, PARISIAN DAWN, and the FLORENTINE SILK?
The reason I ask is because the mix of the healthiest of my seedlings here seem to want to combine with all the dwarf genes in the fancy new stuff that I've tried so far. Seems like many small flowered (IB or SDB-ish) seedlings from these crosses.
May just be the way things are going to be combining any of these bloodlines, but I thought I'd at least take a stab at working on bloom size. 
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