Re: HYB: REB: counting leaf blades for rebloom
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: HYB: REB: counting leaf blades for rebloom
  • From: B* W* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 10:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
OK.  Hope this works for you'


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.



Something to factor in . . .your primary contributor is Immortality.  It was
chosen for it"s health.  Plant health.  It was the healthiest clump in the
yard?  It has a very high fan to stalk ratio.  (not many stalks) This could be
important.  There are other attributes to consider.






Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sat, May 31, 2014 12:16 am
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: REB: counting leaf blades for rebloom


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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