HYB: reliability vs health

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• Subject: [iris] HYB: reliability vs health
• From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
• Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:19:49 -0500
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After thinking about it and looking back over the list of crosses that
have produced survivors, it's clear that the <most reliable> and
<healthiest> are not necessarily the same thing.  At least not here.
Most reliable are among the most resistant to soft rot, but not
necessarily resistant to foliar diseases.

And that shows up in the crosses - healthy x healthy produces higher
percentage of survivors than healthy x either disease prone foliage or
not a steady increaser/bloomer.

By steady increaser/bloomer, I mean both those that steadily increase
and continue to make more and more stalks (nice clumpers) and those that
steadily increase but make fewer stalks per rhizome in the clump.  Like
FEED BACK does here.

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