Re: HYB: REB: counting leaf blades for rebloom
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: REB: counting leaf blades for rebloom
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:29:38 -0400
I think Chuck has said he has used the information to identify which seedlings in a cross are most likely to be capable of rebloom.
In other words, it could be a way to identify which seedlings we might want to use for rebloom crosses <before> we've grown them enough years to hit the right combination of climate and care to find out if they <can> rebloom.
So, for example, in a cross this year, IMM X (IMM x Csong), there are 6 seedlings that bloomed. None of the bloomstalks have pods on them and only 2 managed to bloom (maiden) this spring.
Once the last bloom on the one that's currently blooming fades, I can cut those two blooming ends off the rhizome, count leaves (leaf scars) on them and compare. If one has 5 leaf scars, the other has 10, the one with 5 is more likely to be a rebloomer. 

I think that's what Chuck has said.
I have a hunch that you've been doing this long enough that you can probably look at a group of seedlings from a particular cross and already are aware of this at an intuitive level.
I think I saw some big differences amongst seedlings in leaf count this year - seemed pretty obvious in some of them, even without counting. But too young to know if they can rebloom. none fertile this year. 

On 5/29/2014 1:31 PM, Betty Wilkerson wrote:

I'm not Chuck, but I can see where this would work for you.  Not to predict
future cross but to collect information on things that have rebloomed for you.


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