Re: HYB: help - best clean hafts?

Thanks Jeff.  I have some seedlings coming along from ROMANTIC EVENING,
which memory says has clean hafts, but don't know how well that will
carry over to babies.  I've not tried RIPPLING RIVER, but am currently
growing FIRST WAVE for club sales.  WILD WINGS, which as I recall had
clean hafts, bloomed nicely here last spring, but like most of the black
irises I've tried, wasn't fertile here.

Betty mentioned having the impression that BLACKOUT also helped clean up
hafts for her.

Maybe one of those "NOT Cherry Smoke" babies of yours will turn out to
be a good breeder?

Can anyone think of bitones or bicolors with clean hafts?

Some words of wisdom I've heard offlist - some of this has been already
posted by Chuck and/or Neil.

There are various "haft marks".  Crossing plics to selfs <usually> gives
hafty, yukky things, but not always. Selfs were bred for 75 years to get
smoother hafts;   plicatas were not.  <Most> plics do not have the
refinement to produce smooth or relatively smooth hafts, but some
occasionally do.  For example Rococo X Whole Cloth gave relatively
"quiet" hafts.

Things are further complicated by the appearance of other lined
patterns.  such as all-over striped falls (i.e., CRAZY FOR YOU <can>
produce clean hafted babies).

< RIPPLING RIVER (Schreiner, 1995), a deep and evenly colored navy blue,
has clean hafts. To my eye, most of the modern blacks, such as BEFORE
THE STORM, HELLO DARKNESS, MIDNIGHT OIL, etc. also have smooth hafts.
Jeff Walters    in northern Utah>

<Which TB cultivars have you found to have the cleanest (least veining)
                   hafts? Especially among the darker colors?>

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