Re: HYB: questions
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: HYB: questions
  • From: c* f* <f*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:27:13 -0800 (PST)
Kathy, 

The register is a very good resource.  If all you want to know is basic introduction description, sometimes just posting to this list will get you what you want...  If you want to do involved pedigree research get the register, or the paper version.

As far as the alphabet soup question, I'm guessing what you saw on the daylilies was some kind of genotype notation.  There are some very involved discussions of most iris traits that can be found in the archives of this group.  Could do with a few more discussions of flat irises... but ah well.  Go to hort.net/lists to find those.  

You could spend many a night reading and re-reading these posts and still not glean the mountainous knowledge that they contain.  If you go browsing, just do a search for "Niel Morgenstein" (someone correct me if I got the last name wrong).  Neil has now passed but he was very good at breaking complex genetics principles and hypothesis down to something fairly understandable.

Which reminds me... As long as we're asking questions...

Someone somewhen posted that BC (that's Broken Color) was a recessive a recessive (plicata).  I'll accept at face value that that was a true statement, but can someone tell me how it's possible for a recessive to have a recessive?  That's a little deeper into genetics than I've ever gone, me thinks.

Christian






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From: Kathy Palmer <irismilkduds@yahoo.com>
To: Iris Digest <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 1:13:22 PM
Subject: [iris] HYB: questions

Thanks, for the invitations to ask hybidizing questions.  I'm just at the
beginning stage where I don't know what I don't know, yet!  I've been trying
to decide the characteristics that interest me the most, but haven't really
been able to narrow the list down very much.  I'm definitely intersted in show
stalks and characteristics.  I'm fascinated by the differences in beards.  I'm
partial to the amoenas and bitones, but like all the others also.  Well not
plicatas as much.  (By the way how is amoena pronounced?)  I plan to start
with TBs,MTBs and dwarfs, but randomly ordered about 9 pkgs of other seeds
from Signa justs for practice and to see if I could get something else going
that would work in arrangements.  So far I guess I do have two questions:  How
do I get more info about the genetics of the iris I have?  I don't have the
parents of all that I have.  Most are recent introductions since I am just
starting the garden.  Where do I get
the alphabet soup to go with the characteristics?  (Aaa, BB, etc.)  I noticed
that kind of information about daylilies a day or two ago on iris digest, but
it was too advanced for a beginner, so I mostly skipped over it.  I'm sure
that info is available for Iris as well, I just don't know where to look for
it.  I've read "The World of Irises".  Now what?
Thanks,
Kathy aka Iris Milkduds
P.S. I was thrilled to hear that I could introduce from Signa seeds with
credit to Signa.  If I should be so lucky, I would have questions on the
details of that later. 

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