RE: Excuses to not go to work
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: Excuses to not go to work
  • From: P* A* <p*@mindspring.com>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:28:34 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Just be sure your boss (or his wife) isn't a lurker on this list.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Szabo <steve@familyszabo.com>
>Sent: Jun 5, 2010 10:21 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [iris] re:re: HYB: genetics questions....
>
>"How do you tell your boss, 'Ummm, It's sunny and dry for a change,  I'm
>pollinating flowers today, I won't be in, sorry.'"
>
>How about, "With all the pollen in the air, I seem to have a severe case of
>hay fever today."? Be sure to add the necessary huskiness and sniffling to
>your voice.
>
>\\Steve//
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of mahlberg
>s
>Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 5:52 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: [iris] re:re: HYB: genetics questions....
>
>Thanks for the info.
>
>I generally, as a rule, get rid of the 'inferior plants'.
>Being only a handful of years into hybridizing, I haven't experienced too
>many
>generations of seedlings yet either.
> However, last year I kept one of the 'runty' f1 and backcrossed it to
>grandparent stock just to see what kind of seedlings I'll get.
>I'm expecting to get more small, ''run of the mill'' purples like the f1.
>Time
>will tell a season or two down the line :)
>But to relieve curiosity and satisfy my hopes of finding or not refinding
>grandparents genetic material, I made the backcross to one of the
>grandparents
>stock, both directions,  and have a few survivng seedlings from last year.
>And
>to oversimplify genetics, gave the f2 a 'double dose?' of grandparents
>genes.
>Don't know if the pods set this year on grandma plant or not, as I made the
>cross only a couple of days ago.
>I've noticed, as well, that over the years backcrossing was done more many
>generations ago, but not so much more recently. But there's also a lot more
>to
>choose from now as opposed to 60 or 70 years ago. I don't recall right off
>without looking it up, but maybe it was in one of  the Sass lines that were
>backcrossed a lot...
>Of course, this isn't my main focus on hybridizing, simply a curiosity
>regarding a bit about genetics and inheritance in irises. I'm likely to
>discover the pointless time waste of backcrossing inferior plants. But
>there's
>a little room in the garden for another baby...
>
>thanks for all the input and advice.
>
>more seedlings to flower coming this year in a few more days!
>If it stops raining I can pollinate some, otherwise I may have to call in
>sick.
>
>How do you tell your boss, "Ummm, It's sunny and dry for a change,  I'm
>pollinating flowers today, I won't be in, sorry."
>;)
>
>steve m. zone 4b
>
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