Re: HYB: ?novice pollen daubers/hybridizers

Hi Linda,

I have also found this forum helpful with my pollen daubing experiences.  I
have met other hybridizers, found out how to store pollen, been able to ask
numerous questions, etc.  I can look things up that are archived, print stuff
out, or simply move them to my saved files.  I get to hear what others have
tried for stratifying seeds and have found out many ways to get better
germination.  This forum is fabulous!!!  Thanks JIJ!

I have a meeting down in Casa Grande, AZ in a couple hours for a new group
started a year and a half ago which we have named I.H.A. (Iris Hybridizers of
Arizona).

Not an official group, we just like to get together and share experiences,
articles related to hybridizing, and the like.

I am hopeful to one day intro something distinct and worthy.  So far, however,
my garden has been full of dogs.

RETURN TO SENDER is a reblooming Luminata that is one of the star performers
in my garden this year.  Its bloom is exceptional, the form is fantastic
beyond belief, and the branching and bud count are all there, along with
vigor.  All summer long it stayed green and did not rot in our 100 plus degree
temperature for over 100 days this year.

I crossed BROADBAND, a 2002 gorgeous plicata on it and got a seed pod.  I am
totally hopeful this will produce some reblooming plicatas and luminatas that
I can actually use to start my "line".   Both irises are really fabulous in my
garden.

So, I am off to learn more and to find out what my Arizona "competition" is up
to...lol.

Patrick Orr
Phoenix, AZ  Zone 9
USA
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Linda Mann
  To: iris- talk
  Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 6:42 AM
  Subject: [iris] HYB: ?novice pollen daubers/hybridizers


  When this forum first started in 1996, several folks expressed concern
  that there weren't many new pollen dauber/wanna be hybridizers coming
  along to follow in the footsteps of the ...(trying hard not to quote
  Mike L .. <g>...)... established elder great hybridizers, several of
  whom had either recently died or were elderly and/or in poor health.

  I was thinking how much help this forum has been to me in playing around
  with pollen daubing in irises, & really enjoying the seedling photos on
  iris-photos lately.

  So I just wondered - how many of us have been encouraged by this forum
  to become more serious in pollen daubing, have gone on to either
  introduce their seedlings or at least hope to some day?

  Some of the summer stratified seeds finally started germinating last
  week, including a few from [dk purple sdlng:(DUSKY CHALLENGER x GRAPE
  ICE) X RINGO)] & a few from [sib:(DUSKY C x GI) X IMMORTALITY]... will
  they amount to anything?  Will I eventually be able to get a tall,
  reblooming, light rimmed, dark purple amoena/neglecta without t-factor
  and with DC's wonderful glossy sheen from backcrosses?  If the seedlings
  are worth a dime, will I live long enough to see the subsequent
  generations? (!)  What fun....<g>

  Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
  East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
  American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
  talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
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