Re: HYB: Seed Developement
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Seed Developement
- From: D* E*
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:06:23 -0500
Pat writes from Texas:
>This must have been a very bad year for viable pollen around Dallas. I
had
>no luck
>(or pods) at all. Then I found out that for the first time ever, Hooker
>Nichols and Tom Burseen had the same problem, no takes.
And Dana from Lubbock seconded this scenario.
Well, I'm about 100 miles west of Dallas and 150 miles south of Lubbock and
had the best season for setting pods I've had in my short experience. 129
pods collected, more than 3000 seeds. 54 pods with 30 or more seeds, the
balance of the pods with 29 or less. Lots and lots of daubing to get those
pods, though. Probably the percentage of takes isn't that high. But much
better than the last several years. I think it was weather related. We had
a continuously cool, damp without being soggy wet, and relatively wind-free
spring during the time the pods set. When the weather warmed up with dry
winds in the latter part of the bloom season, pods ceased to set. All my
pods this year consist of an arilbred as either one parent or the other or
both parents, though the latter was only about 20 pods. Nearly all the
bloom was concurrent this year rather than successive and that also helped -
at least it enabled me to have crosses that I don't usually have the chance
to make. Most of the late bloomers bloomed with the early and mid-season
TBs, e.g. and there was a long overlap of the arilbred blooms with the other
beardeds. Last year they did not bloom at the same time. Probably the
concurrent bloom was caused by the weather, but I'm not sure if it was the
long, cool spring that missed our usual late, killing freeze or the severe
drought conditions prior to the damp spring. Probably some combo of all of
it.
'Course, none of that means they'll germinate and survive next spring.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7, USA
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