Re: HYB: seed counts per pod

In a message dated 11/27/2003 6:37:10 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
chris.darlington@sympatico.ca writes: 
> Thanks for this little story About Jack Linse and LADY MOHR.  I noticed
> some time ago in the Database that there was registered introductions
> with LADY MOHR as the pod parent.  I intend to fully explore it's
> fertility next June. I'm interested in seedling variation and what
> you're tell me sounds like I'd be very pleased with this type of AB x TB
> cross.  

LADY MOHR is not listed among the "Bypassed Breeders" on my site because she 
is not fully fertile and I could find no evidence that any of her descendants 
had entered our modern arilbred gene pool.  My notes, however, show that she 
had registered descendants as a pollen parent as well as pod parent.

That said....  I certainly do believe that she has a great deal of unexplored 
potential for those who are prepared to deal with the challenge of wide 
crosses.  Most of her registered offspring -- even those once recorded as oncobreds 
-- are now classified as TBs.  The exception is LADY BERNSTEIN, whose 
potential I was unable to explore [a matter of unfortunate timing].  

If I were still hybridizing, I'd start with LM herself....

1.    I'd cross her with some of the newer pastel 1/2-breds.  From my 
experience with other relatively fertile quarterbreds, the odds of fertility in the 
first generation are about 50/50 and the seedlings do show an interesting range 
of variation.

2.    I'd cross her with those we called "3/8-breds" in the old quantum 
system, especially blends like SIMPLY LUSCIOUS.

3.    I'd also cross her with tetraploid arils, preferably setting pods on LM 
with aril pollen.  My experiments with quarterbreds produced more seeds from 
this type of cross than any other I tried, with high incidence of fertility 
and some very nice flowers.

Sharon McAllister
Returning now to work/lurk mode

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