Re: HYB: seed counts per pod (now LADY MOHR)

Sharon writes:

> 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.

Some of her descendants as a pod parent:

COLOR PLANNED
GOLDEN TIARA
MOCHA CREAM
LADY BERNSTEIN (AB)

as a pollen parent:

MINIATURE LACE (SDB)
RUFFLED RIVER

involving LM in the background:

EVENING ECHO

All except the ones noted are registered as TBs.  The descriptions and reg
data can be found in the '69, '79' and '89 Check Lists.  These are some I
found before the wonderful Irisregister came on line.  Does anyone grow any
one of them?

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA



>
> 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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