HYB: seed pods, tough old historics

Thanks for all the help from everybody in making crosses and slowing down the
rot on pods.  Some are still ripening on the plants and are starting to get a
whitish color like they are maturing?

Others have dropped off the stalks with rotting pods - most have had some
kind of insect damage, but some seemed ok - filled with seeds that are fat
looking.  I am saving them all, this year taking notes on what condition they
were in and when they were taken from the stinky smelly mush.  I will post
germination results next year.

At the end of the bloom season, I found someone local who dug up a chunk of
HELEN COLLINGWOOD for me, bare root.  It had one bloomstalk, with one last
late bloom.  I daubed some pollen (CELEBRATION SONG) on the flower while the
rhizome was sitting in a plastic 5 gal bucket on my porch in the shade.  A
couple of days later, I dribbled some water in the bucket.  About 2 weeks
later I got around to planting it - water was standing in the bottom of the
pail so the roots were looking really bad.  I planted it in the shade (where
HELEN is said to bloom) and the fool thing is growing like a weed and I have
harvested 6 gigantic, mature, healthy looking seeds from the pod that formed
on that bloom stalk.    This is one tough iris.

Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east Tennessee USA
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