Re: More about GAY STRIPES
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- Subject: Re: More about GAY STRIPES
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:49:58 -0700 (MST)
Sharon McAllister wrote:
>
> : What experimentation do you have in mind for GAY STRIPES?
>
> I'd expect offspring from a crosses involving two of C.G. White's E-series
> breeders to include both chromosome-set halfbreds and chromosome-set
> quarterbreds. The first objective of test crosses would be to determine which
> type GAY STRIPES really is. Conventionally, this has been done by crossing the
> candidate with both TBs and proven halfbreds. If it gives full pods of good
> seeds when paired with halfbreds and full pods with a reasonable percentage of
> good seeds when paired with TBs, it may be assumed to be a halfbred.
>
> As long as we're talking hypothetically, though, I can assume bounteous bloom on
> GAY STRIPES and a vast array of potential partners -- so I'd also test it with
> 1/4-breds, 3/4-breds and tetraploid arils. If it's a halfbred, it may produce
> a few seedlings when paired with each of these types. The 1/4-bred X 1/4-bred
> and 1/4-bred X 3/4-bred crosses rarely take, but 1/4-breds crossed with
> tetraploid arils often set full pods, with fairly good germination of the seeds.
> And a high percentage of those seedlings prove fully fertile.
>
> So why bother with something so old????? Not idle curiousity, I assure you.
> These test crosses COULD produce seedlings with real potential....
>
> Tell gave a more detailed description than the '59 Checklist:
> "Fancy plicata. Standards are silvery grey, falls same with violet lines which
> radiate over falls like the marking of some exotic butterfly."
>
> Sounds a lot like the highly recessive pattern once dubbed the susiana-bred. An
> intricate one, not as popular as the more attention-demanding signal -- but one
> I find quite fascinating.
>
> So for the TB tests, I'd pair it with plicatas -- preferably pink-ground ones.
> For the halfbred tests, I'd use veined ones proven to be enthusiastic parents.
> Like LASTING LEGACY, PURE AT HEART, MY JOY, and ROSE COLORED GLASSES. For
> 3/4-bred tests, proven ones like WHIRLWIND ROMANCE or TRIBE OF JUDAH. For
> tetraploid arils, WERCKMEISTER'S BEAUTY, BALLALAIKA MUSIC, or any of the veined
> Holden or Norris seedlings.
>
> Sharon McAllister (73372.1745)
> who can always think up more crosses to make than resources permit
Sharon,
You have piqued my interest with the above hybridizing schemes using Gay
Stripes. I have this iris and I can make most of these crosses except
with tetraploid arils. Like I don't have enough crosses to make this
spring?
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite National
Park (Which is still closed from January's flooding)
Zone 8
