Re: HYB: Limited Fertility
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Limited Fertility
- From: D* K*
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:25:56 -0400
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>>CAPITOLA (the pollen parent of SATAN'S MISTRESS) just bloomed here, so
>>I'll backcross them (both ways) to see what happens.
>
>Uh-oh. SATAN'S MISTRESS is from RED RAPPORT X SWAHILI.
Darn it! I knew that! I just wrote it down wrong in my gardening journal.
I wrote the parents down for OPALS FOR ETHEL by mistake. I swapped the
two. Grrr!!! (If it weren't for human errors, I'd be brilliant! Hahaha!)
>> By the way.......CAPITOLA is listed as OB (no regelia ancestry) but it
>has
>beard hairs on the standards too. Does that sound right??? Isn't that
>just a regelia thing?
>
>Yes, it's a regelia trait -- and I don't recall noticing beard hairs on the
>standards of CAPITOLA.
I checked again. Definitely a furry critter. It has hairs growing on the
falls too...and I don't meant the beard. I mean hairs...growing sparsely
throught the signal area. And also on the inside of the standards. I'll
try to get some pictures. Maybe it's not CAPITOLA? Another interesting
thing is that didn't produce any pollen. Strange for a halfbred, no?
>Yer funnin' me, right? Functionally, AABB halfbreds are the same as ABAB
>halfbreds -- the only difference is a choice of nomenclature. That's why I
>always use AABB and ignore the permutations. Crossing two of these
>normally produces only halfbreds.
No! Not funnin' you! Just trying to wrap my head around this genetics
stuff, and it's obviously not working. <grin!> I guess I am as dumb as I
look. <bigger grin!!>
CELESTE AZUL bloomed in my garden, and I don't think it's CELESTE AZUL at
all. The description doesn't quite match...and my flower looks entirely
TB-ish. I'll post a photo to IRIS-PHOTOS.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
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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