HYB: TB: question - making wider falls/hafts etc?
- Subject: HYB: TB: question - making wider falls/hafts etc?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:56:06 -0500
How is petal width inherited? If you cross two irises with wide falls &
hafts, do you always get wide falls?
Most of my really tough irises (especially historics) have narrow
hafts. If I cross a narrow hafted cultivar with a wide-hafted one, will
the babies be in between in size?
From my own few crosses, it seems that horizontal falls must be
recessive (thank goodness <g>). Horizontal crossed with more
traditional waterfall shape seems to give waterfall shape. Is this what
others have found too?
What about flower size? One of my crosses gave flowers the size of the
smaller flowered parent, the other gave mostly larger than either parent
(I think...). Any generalizations the rest of you would make?
I've only made two crosses that resulted in more than one or two
surviving seedlings, so don't have much to go on from my own
experience. It seems that we haven't had much discussion/generalization
of how some of these traits other than color patterns and rebloom are
usually inherited. We have had a lot of discussion about how these
traits vary tremendously under different growing conditions, so I can
see it would be hard to figure out. But maybe those of you who've grown
a lot of sibling seedlings know?
Also, how about other traits like beard size, open vs closed standards,
ruffling, stalk height?
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
enjoying Keppel's catalog, along with forsythia about to burst into full
bloom and 'wild' daffodils mostly open.
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