RE: Red-toned rebloomers (was RE: First 08 rebloomers)

Mike Sutton wrote:

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Has been about 7 weeks since peak TB bloom, Autumn Rain and Lest We Forget have bloomed every month this year except January. 
Mike Sutton
I was admiring them, along with the other new intros on your website just last night, Mike.
Looking at Lest We Forget prompts me to ask the list a question which has been on my mind lately: I really want to work on red-toned rebloomers, but there have not been many available (especially in Australia) to use as a starting point. So, if I want to outcross reds to other colours, what other colours are likely to give me the greatest percentage of red-toned seedlings? Purple? Yellow? Blends where both anthocyanins and carotenoids are expressed in the flower to some degree? If I want to use red plicatas, are those with yellow ground likely to give me more/less red-toned seedlings than those with white ground?
I wish I understood iris colour genetics well enough that I didn't need to bother the list with such questions, but it seems like the more I try to read up on the subject, the less I feel I actually know. 

Ann

South Australia
j*@labdude.com

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