Re: AIS: CAT: my wish list
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  • Subject: Re: AIS: CAT: my wish list
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
<<I would not make the assumption that you accuse me of.>>
Robert, I had no intention of accusing you of anything. My understanding of your dream was to list all introductions from a given iris to indicate what the iris is capable of as a parent. I simply suggested that a list of the introductions would not tell anyone everything an iris is capable of producing. Any given iris is only a percentage of the input, depending on whether it's a pod parent or a pollen parent. (It does matter.) My belief is that a list of the introductions only gives part of the picture. Just my opinion.
Linda, you would be looking for the "different" seedling. Potential. My example would tell you that a copper seedling is possible from those two parents. Rare but possible.
Only the hybridizer sees all that blooms from a given cross. In order to know the real potential, you would need those numbers. 

Maybe it's just a lot harder when working with cold weather rebloom.
For instance: (just an example) If you look at the R & I you will see some interesting things from 'Renown.' Based on these, who would have imagined it would breed a bright yellow seedling when crossed onto 'Born to Exceed?' Both are of the blue/purple persuasion. I'll never introduce it, so it won't show up on any charts. 


Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KYautmirislvr@aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Cc: Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 10:31 am
Subject: Re: [iris] AIS: CAT: my wish list

;-)  Bob, that was Betty, not me.

I have the opposite idea - that the brown showing up from yellows would
tell me such a thing is possible.  And the visual you describe would
solidify that concept for me.

Betty and I <really> aren't clones!  :-)

On 7/19/2012 9:56 AM, Robert Pries wrote:

Linda I would not make the assumption that you accuse me of.


Linda M

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