Re: CULT: freezes (now 'the idiot seedling')
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: freezes (now 'the idiot seedling')
- From: D* E*
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 05:37:44 -0600
Chris,
>What was the parentage of the seedling that tried to bloom so early ?
>Was it one of your AB X TB crosses or something with rebloom parentage ?
>Just curious..
Well, I think it will be a cross of CORAL CHARMER X SATAN'S MISTRESS. The
idiot seedling has been called the washpot seedling prior to the bloomstalk.
It came up in an old cast iron washpot. I had sunk small pots of those
seeds that went through the refrigerator treatment after I gave up. The
roof run off in a heavy rain pounded in those sunken pots of seeds and I
think probably washed it out into the washpot. The pot most washed was this
cross. The other pots would all have qualified as arilbred crosses.
The plant looks like a TB without any hint of AB and the CC X SM pod had the
most seeds by far, being a full pod that the insects had damaged so was
collected too early. There's no telling what I may have dumped in that pot
from earlier years, so it could be a beepod from the era before pollen
daubing that sat there dormant for a year or two. I did note that earlier
this year Walter noted some SM seedlings also putting on bloomstalks during
the winter months and this one is repeating that pattern. I may never be
certain, but the SM children that bloomed last spring had definite
characteristics that were identifiable from the pollen parent and if this
seedling exhibits the same, I will be more convinced that is what it is. I
did plant it next those known CC X SM seedlings, so will have them for
comparison as well. If I'm correct, it does have a reblooming parent via
CC. I guess I will never know with certainty, though.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
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