Hybridizing program


        Not that I need another hobby but I am going to try to breed reblooming 
Iris for my own garden. Statisticaly I know I'm doomed but I hope to have fun 
anyway. The question I have is for suggestions on how best to proceed, my own 
intentions are as follows:

        1) Aquire as many purported rebloomers as space in my mixed border 
allows.

        2) Select the ones which perform best in My yard and make as many 
crosses as possible within that select group.

        3) Retain those seedlings which are as good or better than parents (how 
many seedlings are usually required - 1000 - 10000 ?)

        4) repeat 

        
        On another topic I read an article in our local paper by Bill Maryott in
which he seemed to suggest that rebloom may be enhanced by the presence of 
streetlights nearby. I assume this means that blooming is partially controlled 
by daylength, and perhaps I should plant iris near my outdoor lights. :-)
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