Re: HYB: Black Forest/aphylla

--- In iris-talk@y..., John Reeds <jreeds@m...> wrote:
In California I see one problem with any high hopes for the near 
future:  most breeders currently pushing out "black" intros are from 
cold winter climates, and don't seem to be selecting against the need 
for severe chilling to trigger increase."

That's why Walter Moore's suggestion of breeding from California-bred-
and-selected Ghio introductions involving Romantic Evening and 
related lines is a source of some hope.  Some of these have quite 
black falls.  Breeding for selfs (selecting away from the bicolor 
genetics involved) might be a fruitful avenue to explore for warm 
climate blacks.  The aphylla ancestry is so remote in these there is 
a chance some dis-association between the problem characteristics and 
the dark color has occurred.

The Blyth generations behind Joe Ghio's lines involved in Romantic 
Evening also occured in a warm climate zone in Australia, not unlike 
California in character.


Neil Mogensen   zone 7a in western North Carolina


 

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