Re: HYB: crossing for green
- Subject: Re: HYB: crossing for green
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:48:43 -0500
From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
>From: Iarejan@aol.com
>
>Hi talkers!!
>
> Sitting down and planning some crosses for this coming season and I've
>never read this one, even in the "green threads" in the archives...is the
>pigment of green that shows up in the "greenish" yellows or the Green/whites
>of TB's or IB's a dominant or recessive color? Would crossing a green/white
>with a green/yellow intensify the green? Perhaps the hybridizers who have
>introduced some greenies could give me input? And while I'm at it, does the
>"chartreuse" (that always looks like brown to me) that shows up something
>that's primarily passed on with the green/yellows?
> TIV for anyhelp...
>
>Janet NAtale
>zone 8 of S.C. where the glads are putting up foliage, and the reticulatas are
>almost done!!
>
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Dear Janet: We are told that the iris with variegated foliage should be
used as the pod parent, not the pollen parent. The several crosses I amde
some 20 years ago were done with the var. fol. as the pollen parent. I got
NO seedlings with var. foliage. Good luck! Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC.
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