Re: Mellita in the ancestry of reblooming diploids

Good job!  It's hard to imagine the genes for any character just popping up like that after so many generation that weren't being selected for that.  But then we would need to consider all the introductions from I. mellita lineage that DON'T rebloom and see how many of those there are.

A small project someone could work on... and mabey do the same for the other species dicussed.

I'm starting to think based on our discussions that there might be a few species may be responsible for rebloom tendencies.  The new cultivars and hybrids just need more vigor and different climates to perform as such.

I know, I know, that just confuses the whole thing.  However, to quote someone who shall remain nameless at this time and needs no introduction.... "All options are on the table".  No retaliatory comment from the Gallery on that paleeze.


Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC  Zone 7

-----Original Message-----
>From: thomas silvers <tesilvers@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Nov 2, 2006 1:32 PM
>To: iris-talk <iris@hort.net>
>Subject: [iris] Mellita in the ancestry of reblooming diploids
>
>Hey Paul,
>I just got registered to use IrisRegister and while
>looking at pedigrees found another supportive "piece
>for the puzzle." 
>
>OZARK SKY a zone 9 rebloomer from Ken Fisher traces
>back to CONSUMMATION (it's "maternal grandfather")
>which I had always assumed was the source of its
>rebloom tendency. But interestingly, it also traces
>back to mellita through SLIM JIM (it's "maternal
>grandmother") whose ancestry is listed as... M106:
>(Tid-Bit x High Jinks) X M39: red I. mellita plicata
>hybrid.
>
>The pod parent of MERIT, another Fisher rebloomer, is
>a cross between OZARK SKY and a seedling of SLIM JIM.
>
>So maybe there really is something to this theory --
>of suaveolens [mellita] ancestry being involved with
>reblooming tendencies.
>
>Tom
>
>
> 
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