Re: HYB:stupid questions department

Hello... I'm new here and I have several types of Iris and have a few
questions. First, after blooming ihave been cutting the stalks back as I've
been told I should do but now the bulbs are beginning to rot. As this is
only on the ones I cut... am I doing something wrong? Next... I let the seed
pods grow on a couple of my bearded Iris and then dryed them. I opened 3 the
other day and found no seeds while the pods were 4 inches long or better...
any reasons as to why? Also, how long does it take to get an Iris to bloom
from Seeds? 1 last question, I live in SC and have limited places to get
Iris plants and they all have the same few plants. Is there a grower that
sells online with a bigger variety of all types of Iris's? Oops... i
fibbed..1 more... does anyone know anything about a Walking Iris??

Thank you very much, I am enjoying this list very much so far.

Rick  in  SC
----- Original Message -----
From: <storylade@aol.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: June 10, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:stupid questions department


> In a message dated 6/10/2000 8:01:57 AM Central Daylight Time,
> comeback@usit.net writes:
>
> << If any hybridizer would care to present a Rosetta Stone to seedling
>  nomenclature it would be greatly admired here in the hinterlands. >>
>
> James,
>
> I cannot speak for all, BUT here goes.  (This sounds like a Schreiner
> seedling) Often the first 2 #s represent the year an iris was crossed.
Some
> begin with the alphabet.  A (the letter) would be the year an iris was
> crossed, but AB might also be the year an iris was crossed.  If Schreiners
> follows this practice, and I don't know but seriously suspect they do,
they
> have been thru the alphabet and back again ;-).  Others just use the
number
> of the year crossed.
>
> Many start one way and switch halfway up stream.  I started with the
> alphabet, but switched to numbers at some point.  For me, A represents a
> cross made in 1986, but my seedling 9524-1Re was crossed in 1995.
>
> The next two numbers, an approximation, often represents the numerical
> sequence of the year's crosses, depending on the system used by the
> individual hybridizer.  In the above seedling, the number 24 represents
the
> 24th cross listed for 1995.  (When I sort seed, I replace their field #
with
> a numeric listing of survivors.  Going by pod parent, I list seedlings
first
> in a chronological order, beginning with the earliest/oldest seedling
used,
> and then sort alphabetically if registered iris are used.  (Ex: A1-1re was
> the first reblooming seedling I saved, also from the first year of
crosses.
> If it were used as a pod parent in a cross, it would be designated # 1 in
> that years listings.  Theoretically, 0301would be a cross made in 2003
using
> seedling A1-1Re as the pod parent, assuming I still had that seedling. ((I
> have some seedlings in which the second two numbers are in the 80's-just
> shows how compulsive I was in the earlier years))
>
> Then I put in a dash.  (Others don't make it this complicated) After the
dash
> I list the # of the select seedlings.  If it were the first to bloom among
my
> reselect of that cross, it gets a 1, etc.  If it Reblooms in my garden, it
> usually gets a Re.   9903-1Re will represent the first seedling to rebloom
> from last years 3rd cross.  9056-8Re is a cross made in 1990, the 56th
cross
> of the year, and the 8th rebloomer that was kept from the cross.  (And I
> don't have to refer to record books to know this)
>
> Ben Hager had a system uniquely his own for T.B.'s that allowed him, and
> others that understood his method, to look at a seedling # and tell why it
> was selected.  The seedling # for FRINGE BENEFITS is T428OLcOr.  Although
I
> don't know his entire system, there is a good chance that T stands for
Tall
> Bearded, Lc was Lace and Or is orange.  Hum!
>
> Looks like there is method to this madness of seedling numbering!  ;-)
Yes.
> I guess you could call it a code.  One that makes sense to the hybridizer.
>
> Betty in BG KY
>
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