Re: HYB:Is THORNBIRD not a good cross?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:Is THORNBIRD not a good cross?
- From: M* V* <1*@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:09:22 -0600
Thanks for your input Walter. . . I'll keep you posted when the pod breaks
open, and then IF any seeds take. And if any offspring should be horribly
ugly and washed out (in a few years), I promise all of my fellow Irisarians
not to do anything with it.
Have a wonderful day. Ours is supposed to be a very hot dry Memorial Day
here.
Ruth Vreeland
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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>From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
>To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [iris-talk] HYB:Is THORNBIRD not a good cross?
>Date: Wed, May 23, 2001, 6:31 PM
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>> But is it unusual to have any success with THORNBIRD? I've heard that it
>> is, and when my brother (in Missouri) tried to cross it with something a
>> few years back, he got a nice pod. . . with absolutely no seeds in it. Is
>> THORNBIRD sterile. . . or is there such a thing? Can anyone tell me what I
>> can expect of this pod?
>
>> Ruth Vreeland
>> Albuquerque, New Mexico - where the weather is gorgeous right now!
>
> Branching will be perfect.
>
> Vigor will be beyond belief.
>
> You'll have appendages galore - spoons, flounces, horns - but the
> flowers will be washed out creams or faded browns and tans. Unless
> there are several pods and hundreds of seedlings, I do not see a
> bright future for this cross.
>
> THORNBIRD has been out long enough now to have had some children
> registered, but I do not recall seeing any in the R & I's. It's
> pollen is fertile. Could be I missed some since I am not really into
> SA irises though I have taken a shine to ART SCHOOL ANGEL and
> HEARTBEAT AWAY, the best two I have seen.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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