Re: Breeding Blacks was iris DIGEST V1 #1460
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  • Subject: Re: Breeding Blacks was iris DIGEST V1 #1460
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:06:42 -0400 (EDT)
Though I'd add my experience with blacks. For reasons I won't go into, I crossed my 'Vanishing Act' by 'Night Game.' VA is a white plicata with pale blue band on both falls & standards. NG is black. Most of the seedlings were pastel. Two were very dark purple. Nice irises, but not perfect. What they did have was height and branching. I crossed the best by another seedling. (Hello Darkness x Tara's Choice).
What I've got is a lot of strong dark, black or near black, seedlings. Some have red undertones and some have purple undertones. I don't know the full story yet due to the freeze damage. However, I can tell you that I did recapture the dark colors.
Sometimes it takes patience and taking the cross to the next generation. Chad, if you want that cross keep making it. If it's worth making, it's worth doing again. 


Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KYautmirislvr@aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sutton <info@suttoniris.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 2:02 pm
Subject: Re: Breeding Blacks was [iris] iris DIGEST V1 #1460

sometime in the 1990s i was trying to breed for a black and orange
iris....ignorantly crossing black by orange and orange by black.  got a
bunch of deep black seedlings plus some others (all very poorly formed). I don't remember what the parentages were but i think before the storm and 
jolt were in them.... found another way to get black and orange so have
stopped pursuing that avenue..don't know if that helped or not
Mike Sutton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Chapman" <irischapman@aim.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Breeding Blacks was [iris] iris DIGEST V1 #1460



All Night Long has Hollywood Nights as pod parent. Celtic Fire  has
Hollywood Nights as pollen parent. So it can work.
Black is a combination of blue anthocyanin, Ae anthocyanin 
enhancement)
and either a deep yellow or intense pink or orange. So you can get 
a
lot of good blacks crossing a black to an intense yellow (done that, 
got
blacks) or to an intense orange. I have found pink under black iris, 
but
haven't made any crosses to pink. All the black, or near black with 
red

beards have either orange  or pink under them. as attested to by red
beard. So as long as you have the three key components together, you 
will

get black.

Chuck Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: chad schroter <charlesschroter@yahoo.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 12:05 pm
Subject: Re: [iris] iris DIGEST V1 #1460
Steve, I can only offer some negative advice :). All crosses I 
have
tried to All Night Long or Hollywood Nights have not taken; which is 
a

shame
since I think they have some of the best flower form.  When crossing
Blacks
(similar to pinks), out crosses to other tones will rarely result in 
any

blacks (or pinks).


Midnight Oil was probably the darkest I have grown. It
blooms late for me and the flowers tended to burn up in the heat, 
probably
because of the color. Make sure whatever cv you try are going to be 
in

sync
bloom time wise with your other Iris.

Chad   Zone 9b

________________________________

Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: TB suggestions -

seeking


Maybe some of the blacks from SUPERSTITION?  I just got a few of

them

last year, can't evaluate them for you, thanks to weather this spring.

:-(


Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7b

On 6/15/2012 6:44 PM, Steve mahlberg

wrote:

Hi all! I've started dabbling with black irises and have a few cool

seedlings from a cross using Hello Darkness.

Does anyone have any recent

hybrids or established more recent TB black iris they'd be willing to
share or
suggest I introduce into my program to help with branching and flower
size?



Thanks!

Steve M. Zone 4b neMN


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