RE: question on irises
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] question on irises
- From: J* H*
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 07:46:21 -0800
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From: "J.F. Hensler" <christyh@povn.com>
From: michelle verville <mickyjonny@yahoo.com>
Hi everyone,
Can you all help me with something? I would like to
know the best breeder TB's. I want to start thinking
of good crosses to make but no little about parents.
Thanks
Michelle Verville<<<
Hi Michelle (and anyone else thinking about hybridizing),
There is no magic combination of cultivars that will give you the perfect
iris seedling. If there were, we would have all gotten bored long ago and
gone onto something else.
The best advice I can give is to find plants that come close to what *you*
would like to see in a TB. Keeping a notebook on your plants will help you
focus on the traits you want to cross for. As your notes on what the
seedlings turn out like accumulate, they'll give you valuable information
on which seedlings are bringing you closer to your goal.
One very important thing to keep in mind... Never give up. Even the easiest
irises to cross won't set seed every year and it will likely take more than
a generation until you begin to see the improvements you're after. The
excitement of seeing an iris of yours bloom for the first time will more
than make up for the work and the time involved.
If you're really cut out to be a hybridizer, you'll find more and more
traits you'd like to cross for and you'll discover along the way that
hybridizing doesn't have a finish line.... It's a journey of discovery.
Christy Hensler
Newport, WA
http://www.povn.com/rock/
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