Re: Re: REB: Immortality/Silver Dividends

In a message dated 6/26/2003 8:47:12 AM Central Standard Time, 
suttons@lightspeed.net writes:

> One year we had about
> 75% of Bountiful Harvest X Colorwatch rebloom (31 seedlings).

Mike, are you able to tell all the rebloom children in the first year?  I 
don't deal with anything like the same volume of seedlings that you do, but 
sometimes it takes a second or third year before the rebloom starts here.  Could 
this be a climatic difference? But then things of mine, GILDED CREAM, have 
rebloomed for you when they never rebloomed here. I'm not getting a true 
percentage.

I'm getting some rebloom from both of my crosses using Innocent Star as the 
pod parent.  1 pod each, with 26 and 14 seed respectively. These were lined out 
early in 2001 but none bloomed that fall.  Then, I had that awful spring in 
2002 were I found they were in a frost/freeze pocket and I lost many. I'd say I 
have about 6-8 good plants left in each cross that survived the freeze. 

Last summer (same year as frost damage) the Innocent Star x Radiant Bliss 
gave one summer (July I believe) stalk. I could recognize Rock Star influence.  
Now this summer I have 2 seedlings from Innocent Star X Rebound that have put 
up stalks. (no bloom yet) Seedlings from this cross look less like Innocent 
Star/Rock Star. 

I've not tried to keep track of the percentage of rebloom children, but there 
are so many variables that I would think it is impossible to say Immortality 
gives xx% rebloom.  Rebloom children are the result of both parents. For 
instance, SILVERADO X IMMORTALITY gave 00% rebloom. We've talked before about the 
possibility that SILVERADO has some type of rebloom inhibitor. FEEDBACK X 
TITAN'S GLORY gave no rebloom for me, out of approximately 45 seedlings. 

When I made the move from Alvaton I brought the 5 strongest seedlings from 
this cross: (E24-5: IMMORTALITY x PLEDGE ALLIGANCE) X F37-REBRST:(IMMORTALITY X 
BEAU ZAM). Three of the five have bloomed in the fall.  That's a pretty good 
percentage-60%. Would it have carried through to the entire crop? Probably not 
because I only brought the strongest, and the rebloom seems to be on the 
stronger plants.  (no blue beards)

In California, you will have a higher percent of rebloom for any given cross, 
since some of mine will never rebloom unless they move to California!  

Any help at all?

Betty W from South-central KY zone 6

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