[iris-talk]HYB:REB:Hybridizing for Semi-Dummies

In a message dated 12/2/2006 10:20:08 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
rshadlow@yahoo.com writes:

<the  GRE can't be that hard....>>
 
Of course not!  Now which box did I put that book in?  The big  thick 
dictionary type book I bought to study for the GRE??  Hadn't thought  of that thing 
since I graduated in 1997.  And seriously don't know where  I've stored the 
book.  I never throw books away, even the useless  ones.  
 
ONLY 18 additional hours of English Lit classes for my masters in  writing? 
Plus the Masters program? Why do I need to read to be a  writer, rather than 
write to be a writer?  I've read all my life but it  doesn't count!  <sigh>  
 
But Loci?    That is something else! Might as well be  Greek.   Oh, I know 
the definition of loci.  I now understand  many of the terms.  I even understand 
what most of them mean.  I  understand double doses, precursors, modifiers, 
etc.  I also  understand recessive and dominant.  In some cases, I can tell  
which qualities/genetics an iris has, but in other cases I  can't.   In some 
cases, I've learned how to guess pretty  well.  I understand most of  the 
concepts but some how it scrambles  when I try to talk about it.
 
In some cases you can tell what an iris had by it's children, but you can't  
tell what it will produce BEFORE the cross!  
 
Then we take it on to gamete, the pl, the alleles?  These are the  terms that 
seem to confuse me.  
 
I think it's time that "genetics for dummies" reappears as a  project??  Yes, 
I was working on such a project a couple of years ago, just  for personal 
use, but I got distracted after about two pages!  
 

Quote from pg 394 of TWOI . . . "The iris hybridizer has been able to  
capitalize upon the variability of tetraploids to create the spectacular tall  
bearded garden varieties.  This variation, however, occurs at the expense  of 
PREDICTABLE  genetic behavior!"  <sigh>  
 
My copy of TWOI looks strange with all the multi-colored sticky notes  
flagging the pages!  They all look like angry little children, just trying  to 
escape!  But I understand more now than I did 10 years ago!  

 
<sigh>  I get tired just thinking about it.  
 
Random questions for random ideas??  
 
Do some of the BAD qualities come as a condition of other good  qualities?  
Are they locked in?  Will rebloom always bunch in the top  during bad years?  
 
Robin, (or anyone) if I keep throwing all types of rebloom together?   Won't 
most of them stick??  As I up the rebloom dosage I seem to get more  rebloom 
children per cross.  
 
 
 
 
 

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