HYB: Seedling bloom

The crosses of 2005 are blooming now.  I've been posting some of their
pictures on Iris-photos.  That year was a very bad one for hybridizing.  Out
of 75 crosses only about 20 took.  I had a severe shortage of pollen, and
pod parents weren't very fertile either.  I ended with a few very wide,
unplanned crosses that really had nothing to do with my goals.  I did cross
a few blue rebloomers, Amethyst Winter and Autumn Thunder with my too short
"Faux Yaquina Blue" seedling, so I'm getting a number of AW and AT
look-alike blossoms.  They are pretty, but I don't need duplicates.  This
evening I saw one from AT that has my seedling's big ruffled form in a
slightly darker hue.  I'll certainly check tomorrow to see what stalk height
and bud count are.



I also have reciprocal crosses between Wearing Rubies and Epicenter
blooming.  They are all dark reds and red-blacks.  The biggest, most
attractive ones have poor branching and bud count.  The two I've found so
far with good branching and bud count have small blossoms.  Such is life, I
guess. :-(  Betty, is  there a possibility that this cross might produce
rebloomers?



Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

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