Re: HYB: Iris Sex
From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
Thanks Dennis. That was something I had never considered before, but it
makes sense. Could it be that our dry desert is the reason that the only
pod parent that produced seeds last year has some aril blood in it? Hmmmmm
could be~!
Patrick :)
Phoenix AZ, USA
Zone 9
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Iris Sex
> From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>
> >From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
> >
> >I understand that irises are "perfect flowers" in the terms they have
both
> >male and female parts, but while looking through a lot of information
> >lately, I have been coming across some descriptions that say a particular
> >hybrid is "fertile both ways". That got me wondering...which cv's are
> >mostly male or mostly female, in the terms they are fertile only ONE way,
> >as pollen parents or as pod parents?
> >
> >The next question would be, Is this something we want to really breed?
> >Shouldn't we want to hybridize flowers that are fertile both ways?
> >
> >Patrick Orr
> >Zone 9
> >Phoenix, AZ USA
>
> Just to add to your confusion, I'd like to mention that fertility is often
> dependent on climate & weather. I know that several cv's that are
> considered "limitedly fertile" performed just fine for me last year (as
pod
> & pollen parents)....probably because we have cool/moist conditions which
> are more conducive to hybridizing.
>
> Sharon McAllister has mentioned the difficulty of getting seeds from
> certain TBs as a pod parent. Yet here in Cincinnati those same TBs would
> probably set seed easily. You living in Phoenix might have a more
> difficult time with them. Your arid climate is likely to narrow the
> "window of fertility". But then again, you can always spit. :)
>
> Clear as mud? <G>
>
> Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
> Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
> http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
>
>
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