Re: HYB: question Re Harvest of Memories, Matrix, etc.
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: question Re Harvest of Memories, Matrix, etc.
- From: M* S*
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:03:02 -0700
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Hi Walter,
Matrix is a great parent for us too. Many re-selects out of it. You are
right, it passes on very good form. On our home page at our web site there
is a seedling out of Champagne Elegance X Matrix. It's the flower in the
upper left hand corner of the page. Labled as First Frost. Reblooms its
head off. Had some seedlings bloom out of Rosalie Figge this year, quite
nice. Rosalie Figge X Diabolique is really nice. Kind of a Diabolique with
a white flash around the beards. Have to wait and see about rebloom. In my
experience Cantina is a beautiful rebloomer and quite consistent
but.........it stinks as a parent, both ways. Lots of poorly formed, dirty
colored flowers. Very sad.
Mike - Pink Cadillac is blooming away, six weeks after peak TB bloom.
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From: <wmoores@watervalley.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: question Re Harvest of Memories, Matrix, etc.
> Mike Sutton wrote:
>
> Sure Linda,
> > The ugly cross was HARVEST OF MEMORIES X GOLDEN IMMORTAL. Now GI
> > puts out some nice seedlings, most of the time. HOM hasn't really
> > done anything for us either as a pod or pollen parent. Vigor has been
> > just adequate on most with narrow, dirty little flowers. Some rebloom
> > but not an overwhelming amount. Mike
> >
> I am wondering if Mike has used MATRIX, and if so, what has he gotten?
>
> Though MATRIX is not the most glamorous rebloomer on the
> market, it has FORM and reliability. I crossed SOAP OPERA X
> MATRIX and got some well-formed deep violets that were free of
> haft marks. EARL OF ESSEX and ASCII ART crossed with
> MATRIX have given some very clean plics of the color of the older
> TEA APRON, light blue, in other words, and the shape of these is
> nice. These are not TDF's but could be if they rebloom in the fall.
> All of these children came from pollen frozen in October of '97 and
> used in April of '98 as MATRIX did not bloom in the spring of '98.
>
> This year I have about ten pods using fresh pollen from MATRIX.
> Some are plic crosses and others are selfs. I am not sure if
> MATRIX is a self or plic but it can be used in both fields. There is a
> sprinkling of cinnamon on the hafts that could be construed as plic
> marks, but these usually fade. Guess is could be considered a
> LACED COTTON type of plic, maybe.
>
> A new one that offers adventures in many color ranges in
> rebloomers is UNCHAINED MELODY, from our AIS president,
> Clarence Mahan. I have pods on it.
>
> ROSALIE FIGGE has no pollen here and won't accept pollen for
> me. I even spat on it. What a wonderful rebloomer though!
>
> Anybody use CANTINA, Monty's best rebloomer here? Spring or
> fall, this is breathtaking, one of my favorites of all time!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
>
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