Re: HYB:Research:Building a better rebloomer

In a message dated 12/6/2006 2:18:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
tasquierloic@cs.com writes:

<<i know i will sound stupid and i might have missed your  point... but why 
do 
you want to use Lemon Reflection with a reb that  dropped the plicata gene 
instead of using an iris that has no plicata in  the first place?>>
 
Loic,
 
Nothing stupid about asking questions.  I've always been taught that  the 
only stupid question is the one you don't ask.  
 
The plicata is almost synonymous with rebloom.  If you run the  name Gibson 
Girl in the register you get 43 hits, with many being  rebloomers.  Dr.  
Raymond Smith, Lloyd Zurbrigg, K. Jenkins, Walter  Moores, Bernice Miller, and Lloyd 
Austin all used it in their breeding.  
 
Then if you run the children on Memphis Lass, Purple Duet and the  like?  
Well, you get the point!  Sometimes it just shows up as a white  spot around the 
beard.  
 
I am looking for rebloomers of relatively modern form that have  no plicata 
parentage.  I can't find many.  Maybe the trick  is to look for the ones that 
have 'dropped' the plicata gene?  Just another  approach to a difficult task.  
I thought it might be easier to  build plicataless rebloomers!  <vbg>   
 
It matters little to me if they've dropped the plicata gene or didn't have  
it from the beginning, but I realized that the recent work I  did adding LR to 
the red/yellow plicata line did prove (I think) that LR  doesn't pass on the 
plicata gene.  (Another goal)   
 
Lemon Reflection has been good at passing on the rebloom gene,  height and 
good branching in my garden.  I'd decided to quit using it  due to form, but the 
absence of the plicata gene could make a difference.  
 
I really don't have a problem with plicatas any more . . . just don't like  
certain colors and patterns!  But I would like to isolate the gene out a  line 
of rebloomers.  Just thinking out loud in hopes of getting  feedback.  

 
Back to the register.  
 
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