HYB: Celebration Song as parent
- Subject: HYB: Celebration Song as parent
- From: L* M*
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:39:42 -0400
Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9 said:
<Linda, we don't have any stalk rot here, too dry, but Celebration Song
is the most rhizome rot prone iris I have. It just won't set pods, but
its pollen is very fertile on almost everything.>
Very rarely see the rhizomes of C SONG rot here (isn't that odd???).
But it is very pollen fertile on most everything here also, and very
willing to produce abundant pollen regardless of late freezes. A couple
of the seedlings from the cross with IMMORTALITY were (potentially)
similar to your beautiful orchid, but were damaged by the late freezes
and didn't develop normally.
<My beautiful orchid, 21-15 A, has all its bad habits, so I will never
introduce it. I am trying to make crosses with 21-15-A that will retain
its color but eliminate its problems. >
Here's hoping Murphy leaves you alone in that quest. <g>
I have a few seedlings from C SONG crossed with tougher cultivars that
are showing no signs of rotted pods (no signs of successful pods either,
but at least they aren't rotting, just stop growing & fall). A nice one
from GOLDEN APPLE with small but very lovely blooms on a perfectly
branched stalk that snapped in half in one of our high winds - at least
the stalk didn't fall down <g>. Sort of a dark pinkish mauve.
<Did you get your pretty seedling sent to the convention gardens?>
Which one? <g> Not yet - been too busy wallowing in the best bloom
season I can remember in years, madly making (mostly unsuccessful)
crosses. I hope they don't expect to receive them until normal
digging/planting time.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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