HYB: ?novice pollen daubers/hybridizers

I suppose you could consider me a pre-novice dauber.  I've never attempted
to start an iris from seed.  I always snap the bloom stalks as soon as the
flowers are gone.  This year I was going to be gone all summer so didn't
have time to get them popped off.  I found 4 pods (wandering bee dauber) so
encased them in women's hose like someone on this list suggested.  When I
returned they had all matured so I've planted them.  The only thing I did
to them was soak them in water (as I do beans in the spring) and planted
them directly into the ground (encased in 3-lb coffee cans with the bottoms
cut out).

I doubt I'll have enough time in my life to become obsessed with pollen
daubing, but you can bet that next spring (or the next) if a blade of grass
comes up in those cans they will stay there until I determine they really
are grass.

Mickey
Bethany, OK   - Center of Oklahoma, USA
Zone 6/7

Message text written by INTERNET:iris@hort.net
> 
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>

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