Re: Re: HYB: rebloom without plicata

In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:37:30 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@lock-net.com writes:

<<> If I got rebloom with the first rebloom set, I'll have  something to  
> introduce no earlier than 2020!  (Maybe  2018.) >>
 
Most of the time is spent getting enough rhizomes to introduce.  Back  when I 
started hybridizing, the estimated time from first year selection to  
introduction was seven years.  That's digging and lining out every  year.  It is just 
an estimate, and there are a number of variables.   An iris slow to increase 
and quick to bloom will take longer.   Market.  
 
With a lot of lines, my red rebloomers for instance, the stages leading up  
to an iris that can be introduced are longer.  For every step I take  forward, 
it seems to go back three!  
 
I started the topic hoping to find information that already  exists!  If it 
does.  I can tell if there is possible plicata in an  iris from the register, 
but I can't tell how it breeds unless children have been  introduced.  Better 
someone tell me what they've experienced already, than  me run the experiment 
again?  It's possible that I'm the only one that  really cares!!  That's okay, 
too!  



I seem to remember dark lines in the throat of LUNAR WHITEWASH.  An  
indication of plicata genes.  It could have plicata through BONUS  MAMMA. (I Do) 
 
 
 
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