Re: orange genetics
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: orange genetics
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:34:32 -0500 (EST)
In the cross I referenced, all of the seedlings appeared to be exactly the same color, (bright shiny yellow-or the 'Summer Radiance' color) and my thoughts were that it would take another cross to orange to make it appear. With the resulting seedlings being just a hair past three quarters orange. My thoughts were that it had SOME orange but not half--with tons of seedlings needed to bring it out.
Still, you know a lot more about genetics than I do, and I'm happy to accept your conclusions. 

<<I've gotten an orange seedling from HoM X orange,>>


Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 4:57 pm
Subject: Re: [iris]orange genetics
Thanks Betty. I'm afraid this is one of those things where I struggle hard to "understand" the math, then have to see it in the garden before it will give me any kind of working understanding.But your examples/experiences are always welcome.I've gotten an orange seedling from HoM X orange, but only one out of a bunch of yellows. Which implies HoM is half orange. I think. I've also gotten a couple of tangerine beards from it. Both were dirty white or cream, I think. Which means it has to have some of both alternate yellow and pink. I think.So if I have this figured out right, I think that means it's both half pink and half alternate yellow. But don't hold me to it! ;-)T bearded whites keep showing up from various crosses, but I'm not ready to try to understand that just yet. Maybe I'm supposed to cross them back to HoM to get alternate yellow with t beards? Guess I could with 'red hot', which is 15GAK X Decadence. ding! light bulb. 15GAK is from [white seedling:(IMM x pink)] X [orange seedling:(GOLDEN APPLE x CRYSTAL GLITTERS)]. So I think that means that ... oh rats, momentary glimmer of understanding vanished into thin air.I have a bunch more seedlings from various combinations of HoM, pink, and orange cooking along from 2011 seeds, may help me understand this more. Not counting on it. Aging brain isn't able to do this very well any more.Linda Mann--------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with themessage text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS 

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