Re: Re: HYB: Lady Friend (fertility)

Sorry no to answer you earlier on this Linda, both are fertile both ways
here.  Prestige Item is difficult for me but I have had pods on it and from
it.  Of course Suky is fertile both ways for me too (2 pods on it right now)
and I hear that it is pod infertile everywhere else.
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 7:25 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Lady Friend (fertility)


> I had asked about PRESTIGE ITEM & LADY FRIEND fertility and several of
> you posted on- & off-list that LADY FRIEND was fertile, but maybe
> PRESTIGE ITEM isn't.  Thanks all.
>
> Chuck Chapman in.. Canada? wrote
> > I have checked my records and found Lady Friend to be pod and pollen
fertile..... Actually the crosses made on a warm evening
> > seem to get the best takes, when there is no    rain.
>
> I was getting a really high success rate here roaming thru the garden
> staring at flowers & growth & thinking about pedigrees as the sun was
> going down, then madly rushing around making crosses before it got too
> dark to see what I was doing.  The humidity here rises sharply in the
> evening - cool air rushes down the ravine behind the house picking up
> moisture from the trees and stream.  Laundry on the clothesline is too
> wet to bring in if I don't get it taken down well before sunset.
>
> But once the days got hot and windy, hardly any pods.
>
> LADY FRIEND was THE modern iris that bloomed the first year I went to a
> 'local' show (Lebanon TN, 3 hr drive one way, where I met Betty W from
> KY).  It was one of our bad late freeze years for nearly everybody in
> Tennessee and the folks there were much distressed that they had mostly
> only oldies for their show.  There were several stalks of LADY FRIEND
> from different exhibitors, so I thought it would be a good one for my
> frost pocket.  That hasn't been the case - this has been the first year
> it has made more than a half frozen, badly damaged attempt at bloom.  It
> was spectacular.  Huge clump after all these years.
>
> So even tho it bloomed well, it may still have had some stressors
> affecting its fertility.  Even DUSKY CHALLENGER, which does really
> wonderfully for me, has yet to produce any pollen, fertile or otherwise,
> and all the earliest blooms that opened on everything had shriveled
> anthers.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
> there MAY actually be a pod forming on CELEBRATION SONG X PRESTIGE ITEM
> (I'll believe it when I see seeds)
>
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