SPEC: seed germination update

From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>

Here's a nice, long, boring email for most of you, but maybe some of my
fellow SIGNA-philes will appreciate an update on my seed germination
results.

I received numerous seeds from you folks, and even more from SIGNA.  Here's
what's germinated so far:


FROM FRIENDS:
  - Iris setosa "Wal-Mart!!!" (planted March, 1998)
       - 2 of approx. 20 are growing - 10%

  - Pacific Coast Iris bee pods (planted on 16 August, 1998)
       - 5 of 29 are growing - 17%

  - tetraploid oncogelias (planted on 16 August, 1998)
       - 0 of 33 are growing - 0%

  - tetraploid OGB (planted on 16 August, 1998)
       - 0 of 52 are growing - 0%

  - Iris lactea "Illini Fountain" (planted on 15 November, 1998)
       - 0 of 5 are growing - 0%

  - Iris carthaliniae "Georgian Delicacy" (planted on 15 November, 1998)
       - 0 of 6 are growing - 0%

  - Iris foetidissima "blue flowers" (planted on 22 November, 1998)
       - 0 of 22 are growing - 0%

  - Iris lactea "Moorcroftiana" (planted on 20 December, 1998)
       - 0 of 10 are growing - 0%

  - Siberian hybrid (planted on 20 January, 1999)
       - 88 of approx. 150 are growing - 59%

  - Iris milesii (planted on 20 January, 1999)
       - 4 of 13 are growing - 31%

  - Louisiana Iris mixed bee pods (planted on 1 February, 1999)
       - 1 of approx 200 are growing - 1%

  - Iris pseudacorus "Come in Spinner" (planted on 1 February, 1999)
       - 16 of approx 25 are growing - 64%

  - Belamcanda chinensis (planted on 26 February, 1999)
       - 5 of 7 are growing - 71%

  - Pardanthopsis dichotoma (planted on 26 February, 1999)
       - 5 of 7 are growing - 71%


FROM SIGNA (all of these were planted on 20 January, 1999):

  - Iris stolonifera (98F051)
       - 0 of 5 are growing - 0%

  - onco-hybrid (98F056)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris laevigata "Albopurpurea" (98N244)
       - 16 of 16 are growing - 100%

  - Iris virginica "Iatan Titan" (98N323)
       - 9 of 32 are growing - 28%

  - Iris x reversicolor (98N340)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris x robusta "Dark Aura" (98N343)
       - 1 of 5 are growing - 20%

  - Iris missouriensis var. "longipetala" (98P380)
       - 3 of 4 are growing - 75%

  - Iris missouriensis var. pelogonus (98P382)
       - 1 of 108 are growing - 1%

  - Iris missouriensis (98P383)
       - 2 of 90 are growing - 2%

  - Iris setosa "arctic rebloomer" (98Q392)
       - 5 of 12 are growing - 42%

  - Iris setosa var. tricuspis (98Q397)
       - 7 of 8 are growing - 88%

  - Iris tridentata (98Q424)
       - 0 of 5 are growing - 0%

  - Iris cristata "many stalks" (98S451)
       - 0 of 5 are growing - 0%

  - Iris lacustris (98S452)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris watii (98S462)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris foetidissima (98T466)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris reticulata hybrid (98V479)
       - 0 of 11 are growing - 0%

  - Iris reticulata hybrid (98V481)
       - 0 of 10 are growing - 0%

  - Iris reticulata hybrid (98V482)
       - 0 of 5 are growing - 0%

  - Iris winogradowii (98V483)
       - 0 of 4 are growing - 0%

  - Iris prismatica x Iris douglasiana SPEC-X hybrid (98Y504)
       - 4 of 6 are growing - 66%

  - Iris x tetra-versilaev (98Y506)
       - 5 of 7 are growing - 71%


Any comments????????


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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