HYB: no pollen
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net>
Those of you on IRIS-PHOTO saw my jpegs of CAIRO LOVE SONG and JEWEL OF
OMAR which are both quarterbred arilbreds. This morning I checked for
pollen and found none on them. I realize this is to be expected (limited
fertility).
Instead I applied pollen on them from some SDBs. So maybe there's a chance
they'll set seed (keeping my fingers crossed).
I must have made nearly 100 crosses so far this spring, and only about 25%
of my irises have bloomed. So at this rate, assuming these crosses all
take, I'm going to have more seed than I know what to do with! That's
quite a change from last year. Hahahaha! (By the way, none of those 8
seeds have germinated yet.)
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, SIGNA, SLI, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: ABs, REBs, LAs, Native Ohio SPEC and SPEC-X hybrids
(Check out my web page at http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html)
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