Re: SPEC: Oncocyclus

Ian E. Efford wrote:

:  The most beautiful iris that has flowered for me this year came from a
:  single seedling that survived from 1994-5 BIS 22.  The description reads
:  "Oncocyclus - 1/2AB McAlister 89-21-9 Sibs from "Just for Jan x Kiosk"
:  GW-UK."

:  I have a couple of questions about the origin.  Does Sibs in the
:  description mean siblings or siberians?  I assume the former. 

Yes, it  meant siblings.  The "1/2AB" description means arilbred, with 1/2 aril
content.

:   Does
:  McAlister (sic) mean Sharon McAllister? 

Right, again.  Cross # 89-21 was Just for Jan X Kiosk.  I bloomed about 100
seedlings from the cross, all in shades of yellow-ivory to yellow orange, some
selfs & some bicolors, some with rust markings, most with burgundy signals.  I
made a large number of test crosses among the siblings before discovering a
discrepancy between my maps and labels with respect to clone #'s.  Although I
could determine the correct seedling number of each pod parent, in some cases I
could not be sure which sibling had been the pollen parent -- so I simply
designated it as a sib cross.

The abbreviation "GW-UK" means that the seeds were contributed by Geoff Wilson,
of the United Kingdom.  These could have been my seeds, or they might have been
from sib crosses Geoff made among seedlings he had raised from my seeds.  

:  Did anyone else try these seeds
:  and, if so, what was the result?  Can anyone tell me more about this
:  seedling?

I gave away hundreds of seeds from sib crosses of the Just for Jan X Kiosk
seedlings so I'd be interested in hearing about other results, too.  The
original cross, and its reciprocal, were made to test maternal inheritance of
plant characteristics.  The test crosses, which produced the seeds I gave away,
were made using the best plants as pod parents so I'd expect Ian's seedling to
be more gardenable than today's typical halfbred.  

Sharon McAllister (73372.1745@compuserve.com)
Southern New Mexico -- the land of extreme temperatures that defy zone
descriptions
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