Re: HYB:foliage

I would have to aggree with the following statement and I do have a sensitive
eye for the look of foliage on my breeding stock and seedlings.  It might
simply be the ones you are choosing that grow (or survive) in your area and
that may be a linkage you are seeing.  You might research their parentage and
see how much common ancestry they have, as well as who bred them (i.e
climate)

Some notable ones that I have found not to be strappy at all are 'Select
Circle' , 'Floorshow' and 'Purple Pepper' and 'Matrix' and 'City Lights'  I
have observed seedlings from all but SC and CL and foliage was not strappy,
even with 'Purple Pepper' X 'Light Beam'.  LB  has had a fair tendency to have
narrow foliage (if not shorter as well) and have found a tendency to pass that
on to its offspring.  However, when crossed with PP this did not happen. For
the majority of the seedlings vigor increased compared to PP and comparable to
LB and the broad foilage of PP was kept.

I will note something else about Light Beam since it was mentioned.  It seems
to have a hidden talent of producing border bearded seedlings with smaller
flowers than a "normal" border bearded and generally great plant proportions
all around when it does occur.

In case you are wondering, or didn't know, Light Beam is a true carotenoid
plicata (yellow dotting and stitching on the standards AND falls) from
Broadway X Beverly Sills, so lots of potential although I've found limited
fertility.  It throws all sorts of colors as well, including a reblooming Zone
5 orange seedling.

Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC  Zone 7



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I cannot say I've ever thought plicatas had worse foliage than any other type.
Maybe I don't have a good eye for this or I'm not sensitive about it, but that
has never impressed me as an affliction suffered by all plicatas.  That's
painting with a pretty broad brush.

Arnold

Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail  koekkoek@mtcnet.net

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