Re: Re: HYB-Romantic Evening

Hello Walter,
Have a few DC seedlings by various other iris.  Most of the flowers are dark
purple and nice but are usually very large.  Don't know if that has been a
deterrant or not.  Midnight Oil is difficult, but has given some rather poor
seedlings with one exception.  Got a very nice, wide sooty black space age
when it was crossed with J-71-A: Hello Darkness X Trick Or Treat.
Mike Sutton
Porterville, CA USA
USDA zone 8b

----- Original Message -----
From: wmoores <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB-Romantic Evening


>
>
> There are many.  Some are just deep purple/violet and are not sooty
> like MO.  I am wondering which ancestor in the Schreiner 'black' line
> contributed to the overbloom that is in HELLO DARKNESS and THUNDER
> SPIRIT.  I don't think it was NAVY STRUT orr SUPERSTITION; it could
> have been one of the numbered seedlings.  I wonder why DUSKY
> CHALLENGER doesn't appear often in black pedigrees.  Is it because it
> is unknown?  I have never bloomed a DC seedling and do not know what
> it throws.  I know that plants are on the market with the parentage
> of Silverado x Dusky Challenger or the reverse, but I have not seen
> any of them in bloom.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8



 

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