Re: Re: HYB: deciding what to cross

Linda,
    I find your pollenizing experiences very interesting.  I had good luck with most of my crosses this year, and I also have used Celebration Song extensively.  My most interesting seedlings have been from Sutton's Pink Lenox X Celebration Song.  That cross has produced an amazing orchid, a bright rose pink and a two tone lavender with an orange beard that had good branching and bud count.  Now I have 25 more siblings of that cross growing well in their rows as well as pods by CS on Pond Lily and Anna Belle Babson.  It should be interesting.
    I find that crosses just don't take when the temperature goes above 90 degrees.  During cool weather almost everything set.  When the heat came, that was the end of it.
Francelle Edwards   Glendale, AZ  where the temperature has been above 105 degrees for the past three days.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda Mann 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:30 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: deciding what to cross


  I said:>> Easy this year - find the three cultivars that made any
  pollen....>>

  & Neil Mogeson in North Carolina, 100 miles east said:
  <You too?  Pollen is sure scarce here!  Later blooms on a stalk seem
  to fare better.  The first bloom of HAPPENSTANCE was pollen-bare, ..>

  I am making some very wierd crosses this year & while that's not really
  all that unusual, I usually spend some time checking pedigrees as I go,
  trying to at least have some mix in the parentages that could
  conceivably combine into something that will live & bloom here, have
  hafts wider than those from the 40s, stalks that won't all fall down,
  and more than 5 blooms per stalk, preferably at least 7 with some
  branching, and now and then some potential for rebloom....

  Not this year - one of my 'art shade' bee pod seedlings from PERFUME
  COUNTER is loaded with pollen - low bud count, somewhat strappy floppy
  flowers, not very pretty colors - so I've been slapping pollen from it
  on all kinds of creaky elderly varieties and species.  Hopefully, none
  of those will take, so I won't be wondering during some future good
  bloom season what dementia possessed me to make these crosses...

  Good to hear that your HAPPENSTANCE made some pollen in later blooms -
  first was a dud here also.

  Once again, I am putting CELEBRATION SONG pollen on everything in sight,
  because he is both loaded with flowers and all flowers are loaded with
  pollen, if a bit soggy from all the rain.

  I couldn't say what most of my crosses have been - I've been walking the
  rows, peering into flowers, searching for pollen, then trying to figure
  out what to do with it.

  And to top it off, today I ran out of what I had thought was an infinite
  supply of string tags & wasted hours going from store to store hunting
  for more.  Fortunately, the car repair place took pity on me and gave me
  a few very elegant plastic tie thingies that they use to label
  customers' car keys.

  Well, sorry to babble on - I am totally worn out and muttering to myself
  online....

  Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8


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