Re: HYB:foliage

Well, seems to me like totally white foliage could be lumped into the bad foliage category.  I've got a two week old seedling that's white and from two plicatas (Total Recall x Huckleberry Fudge).  Seems like I remember some discussion of this phenomenon before...
   
  Betty I think your problem with Beverly Sills must be that you aren't being mean enough to it.  You're only an hour from me and mine has been reliable,  vigorous and even fertile since I whacked it's top completely off with the hoe. lol>
   
  Christian
  ky  

Autmirislvr@aol.com wrote:
  I've been unable to post to iris-talk for several days. Here is a post I 
attempted to send several days ago. (12th)


Once upon a time in the land of irises. . .

I heard a hybridizer say that he would breed for foliage when people started 
buying irises for their foliage! 

But more recently I've been told that most plicatas have terrible foliage! 
Now, I'm not into purple plicatas, and I just hadn't noticed particularly bad 
foliage in the yellow and red combinations. But then . . . I wasn't 
breeding for foliage! 

Recently I've been circling a patch of seedlings from last year and giving 
them the evil eye. Why, you might ask? Because the foliage looks terrible! 
The foliage is all strappy, small, and laying down. 

You guessed it! They're plicata! This was a half serious cross. I wanted 
to see what would happen when I crossed a plicata parented variegata 
(BLATANT) with a plicata. Thought I might get some interesting reblooming seedlings 
in the process. Planted them late. In fact, I almost didn't plant them at 
all. Thought what the heck, they can't look any worse than my WINESAP 
seedlings! 

Is this foliage just an anomaly or is my hybridizing friend right? 

(Only seen one other seedling group look this bad as a group and they were 
NOT plicata.) 


Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
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