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

This kind of info is very useful, even if it doesn't make sense right now.  It probably will in the near future as more and more people are doing rebloom crosses and trying new combinations and actually studying the trait.

Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC Zone 7


>
>Amen to that Loic! And thanks for reminding me Robin.
>That's a perfect example of how you never know what
>you're going to get. I had planned it all out very
>carefully to best of my "genetics knowledge", which
>isn't too shabby, if I do say so myself. Anyway, I've
>gotten everything but what I've expected. CLOWN PANTS,
>from Iris variegata X mellita, I expected not to
>rebloom, since neither species reblooms for me. I had
>hoped that second generation offspring might have that
>potential though. CLOWN PANTS does repeat its bloom
>about half of the years here, but it is in a different
>way than typical rebloom. It sends up a few stalks,
>just a few weeks after the main flush is through.
>Crossing Iris cengialtii (which doesn't rebloom for
>me) with CLOWN PANTS has given me a totally different
>kind of rebloom. None of these seedlings sends up
>additional stalks right after the main flush; but
>several have just this year done a typical-style fall
>rebloom. Once again, totally NOT what I expected. On
>another note, KEIRITH (which reblooms somewhere)
>crossed with CLOWN PANTS has given not one single
>rebloomer of any sort. Go figure!! 

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