Re: strange TB

Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
> 
> Bill Maryott wrote
> 
> :My understanding these are usually due to unstable genes and usually
> :will  not occur consistently.<snip>
> :The two important questions are 1. are all flowers on the
> :stalk identical and 2. will the flowers from ALL increases continue to
> :pattern consistently next year.
> 
> I concur. 

Tom, John, Bill, Kathy et al -- You may recall that I posted several
weeks ago a report of one of my seedlings which had produced, on one
stalk, two WABASH-type amoenas and two bi-colors with cream-colored
stands and red-violet falls edged in bronze, while producing on the
other stalk a number of sectioned chimeras which split the color
patterns of the irises on the first stalk.

Here is this year's report:

After last year's bloom, I divided the clump into seven pieces, two of
which incorporated the mother rhizomes of the two blooming stalks. This
year, only the two pieces incorporating the mother rhizomes bloomed. One
put up a stalk from an increase of the mother rhizome. Its blooms were
all the WABASH-type amoena. The other put up a stalk straight out of the
mother rhizome. (I know, it's not supposed to do that -- but this is
obviously an iris that, as they say in the local vernacular "doesn't
know how to behave.") What's more, it went its predecessor one better.
It produced, on the same stalk, two WABASH-type amoenas, two bicolors as
described above, AND two sectioned chimeras splitting the colors of the
amoena and the bicolor.) This is not an iris that is particularly
attractive in itself. The form is old, the branching not much. But I
have two deliberately-set pods on the crazy stalk, and a bee pod on the
normal stalk. (Thank you, Mr. Bee, for providing the "control" that I
neglected.) So, we will see what comes of it.

Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon. 
jgcrump@erols.com
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