Re: Re: CULT:Early Season

Both are above average growers for me and Matrix always reblooms a bit too late here.  The soil they are in is hardly what one might call nice (rocks and sandy silt over a layer of clay), but they do grow just fine.  Some varieties do have trouble and I note that and move them to the garden with better soil.

Just a short synopsis of the cross performance.  I have over 100 seedlings from Golden Immortal x Matrix cross so I should get a few good ones.  They germed well and the seedlings were better than most from the start.  About half have nice foliage, broad and green and straight.  Some foliage might actually be too broad but I'll wait to decide on that.  Most are vigorous or moderately so.  About half have PBF and some strikingly so.  Two started to bloom last fall and dug them up to bring inside - they were not particularly nice flowers but have saved them for comparison next year.  There are about six that are apparently rebloomers (due to the EARLY Spring bloom in comparison to the other TB's) and are about 2 weeks from blooming with slightly stunted stalks with some frost damage that probably occured about a month ago when the stalks were merely a glint in the plant's nodes.

I am hoping for better carotenoid plicatas similar to Light Beam or Champaign Time with better flower form, foliage and growth.  It looks like I have the plant characteristics down and just time to choose flowers and fertility.


I have not observed any significant disease resitance in my seedlings and there are others working on it.  For me to breed for it I have to be able to observe it.  On the flip side I don't coddle my seedlings.  If they don't survive on their own without the rain and watering during lengthy dry periods and some fertilizer they will die.  My plants are strong on their own as they should be.  I have always had leaf spot and managed to control it with fungicides.  One year my choice of surfactants (dish soap) I believe caused rot  of the emrging leaf blade then transmitted down through the fan into the rhizome.  

I almost had the leaf spot beat last year with the dry Spring and then my sprayer broke and it took off like wildfire at the beginning of Summer when the rains picked up.
I have back-up this year and it is a dry Spring again.  Maybe once I have the leaf spot under control I might be observe how the plants behave without the copious fungicide applications and I can see more differences amoung them.  Not a luxury I have right now.  


Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC



-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
>Sent: Mar 29, 2007 7:38 AM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: [iris] Re: CULT:Early Season
>
>Oh boy, look forward to seeing baby pix.  Walter Moores has encouraged 
>me to use MATRIX for width (& rebloom, of course), but while M grows and 
>blooms extremely well here, it isn't among the most rot resistant, and 
>babies have been weak and/or poor germinators.  GOLDEN IMM grows slowly 
>(very slow to grow new roots) but foliage seems very healthy here in the 
>'vale of despair'.  I've not had much success using it, but keep trying.
>
>Was disappointed to read you are treating for leaf spot - was hoping you 
>were breeding for resistance?
>
>> I'm having similar observations from my large number of Golden Immortal X Matrix seedlings.
>> 
>> Paul Archer
>> Raleigh, NC
>
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