RE: info:TB&MDI

Adding to Walter's reply.  The resulting IB will depend on how much
pumila is in the SDB used.  Those with a lot of pumila will bloom
earlier and tend to be shorter.

I am not a hybridizer but am a collector of hybridizing information
until I find and afford a piece of land big enough for all the
experiments I want to try.

Our first practice crosses are germinating.  Now we know that we can
successfully carry out a cross.  We did a few TB-SDB crosses as they
were blooming at the same time due to the long cool spring and sudden
emergence of high summer.  I will report the results, but we did each
cross only once as this was a practice run.

Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Walter A. Moores [SMTP:wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 14, 1998 12:11 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: info:TB&MDI
> 
> 
> 
> > I have a question for you, Walter. In the above cross of TB/SDB, do
> you 
> > ALWAYS get IBs, or are some of them different heights, bloom sizes,
> etc?
> > I do know that the height range for IBs is generous, tho, and that
> not 
> > every blossom will be "perfect." Will some of them be TB or SDB
> size?
> > 
> > Barb                            lgjohnson@getonthe.net
> > SWMO where it is wet and foggy and the ground is frozen
> >
> Walter Moore wrote:
> 
> 	Yes, Barb, you will get some 'awkward, gawky' children along
> with 
> some good ones as is the case in all bearded iris crosses. If you
> follow the definition of an IB strictly, it should be a cross of a SDB
> X a
> TB or a BB.  However, I have seen a few registrations involving SDB X
> TB
> being registered as BB because of the larger flower and perhaps the
> timing
> of the bloom season.  IB's are supposed to bloom between the SDB's and
> the
> TB's, but I have had some bloom before SDB's and with the TB's, so the
> bloom time by definition is not etched in stone.  FANTASTIC BLUE comes
> to
> mind as an IB that doesn't always cooperate in the height department.
> The
> flowers are rather large, but more often than not, it blooms short,
> and,
> therefore, is not in proportion.  I keep it because I enjoy the
> patterning
> on the hafts. FB is one you will either love or hate.  It may also be
> used
> for erosion problems as it is such a rampant grower, good on slopes or
> gullies!  Ideally, an IB's bloom should be larger than an SDB but
> smaller
> than a TB or BB, and the height from about 15" to 27", all in
> proportion.
> A large flower looks funny on 15" stalk, and a small flower may look
> funny
> on a 27" stalk.
> 
> 	Walter Moores
> 	Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
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