Re: HYB:REB:Report

I think most people want or plan to get something in the initial cross between two parents.  I actually plan not to and plan to do sib crosses from the start.  If I actually get something of the proper characteristics all the better.  But the nature of the crosses I do have very limited chances for first generation success.

You can't really expect to just keep mixing plicatas for eternity.  You will  need to and inadvertently "want to" incorporate new genes from other lines.  Sure some or many of them will have muddy hafts, but chances are some won't, depending on the other parent used.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Autmirislvr@aol.com
>Sent: Nov 12, 2006 3:29 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris]HYB:REB:Report
>
>In a message dated 11/12/2006 4:49:32 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
>pharcher@mindspring.com writes:
>
><<I had flowers to spare and I like the flower size and foliage  and growth 
>on the Stairway and have like the foliage and growth and rebloom on  the Select 
>Circle.  So, I figured why not and see what happens. Others do  this all the 
>time, right?>>
> 
>Sure!  Most of us do, I'd think.  But I didn't want to presume  anything!  I 
>really stayed away from mixing plicatas with anything else for  years because 
>I'd been told I'd get muddy hafts etc.  More recently,  I've been mixing them 
>in, mainly for fun.  Not a lot.  
> 
>I crossed Blatant x All Revved Up (my plicata introduced this year) just  
>because a friend bugged me to use Blatant!  I've had 8 to bloom this  summer and 
>fall.  A couple even have potential!  And I'm real anxious  to see what I get 
>with the Vanishing Act (tall plicata) X Night Game.  
> 
>Deer ate my pod with Strictly Ballroom x Mariposa Skies.  Didn't  manage to 
>remake it.  
> 
>Just curious.  
>
> 
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