Re: HYB: failed crosses/eaten pods
- Subject: Re: HYB: failed crosses/eaten pods
- From: n*@charter.net
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:01:03 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., GardnrJan1@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/22/01 1:49:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> storylade@a... writes:
"...MARIA TORMENA x DIRECT FLIGHT"
Glad to know, Janet, that I'm not the only one who thinks DIRECT
FLIGHT has potential as a parent. I am not especially fond of the
form or texture of the blossom (they're ok), but the plant, the
branching, the bud count and the performance are first rate, and the
garden value of that pink-plus-blueviolet with the blue-touched beard
is substantial. From a distance it looks DEEP pink.
I have seedlings from it and EMPEROR'S CONCERTO, crossed both ways,
lined out for possible next year's bloom. EC also has the branching,
bud count, gardenability, and DOES have outstanding form, ruffle,
texture, and the blue beard too. I expect "mud" colors in the F1
with the "t" reverting to yellow, but that's ok. Combining blue and
t beard colors often results in brown or rusty beard tones, but
DIRECT FLIGHT avoids this somehow. Imbreeding these may recover
some "t" beards in the next generation and hopefully some of those
will also have the blue.
Obviously this is for long-range, not short-range goals. One thing
that concerns me, however, is blossom size on both of these. Under
our conditions both cv's have somewhat smaller blossoms than what
catches optimum attention. The American iris-buying public tends to
prefer rather larger bloom size on TB's.
I'm curious to know your objectives in using DIRECT FLIGHT. This
year, the fact that it had POLLEN is almost reason enough.
Neil Mogensen zone 7a near Asheville, NC
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