Re: HYB: Selection Ratios
- To: iris-talk
- Subject: Re: HYB: Selection Ratios
- From: L* M*
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:49:35 -0500
<I agree about being more interested in wide crosses. >
Me too - I don't know if it's true or not, but I keep thinking about
vigor and wide crosses in TBs being a mechanism for linking vigor from
one line with greater diversity of colors and patterns in another line.
So I won't make crosses, for example, of a vigorous purple or black iris
that only has purple/black ancestors or of a yellow that has only yellow
ancestors. I mention those two colors because they are two that seem to
have several tough growing mid- to late-blooming cultivars already (for
my soil and climate).
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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