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

In a message dated 6/5/2008 12:06:10 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
colleen@impressiveirises.com.au writes:

Hi  Ann

I'd be inclined to cross a rose or rosy purple with a yellow. Many  reds
appear that way because of the layering of the rose on the yellow.  Here's a
challenge, Rosalie Figge x Golden Immortal would be interesting,  if you
could get the pod to set.


Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills  
South  Australia

www.impressiveirises.com.au



-----Original  Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On  Behalf Of Ann Head
Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2008 12:53 PM
To:  iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] RE: Red-toned rebloomers (was RE: First 08  rebloomers)

Mike Sutton wrote:
><snip>
>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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