Re: Re: HYB:potential & day dreams

In a message dated 11/28/2006 6:09:05 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@lock-net.com writes:


<<I agree.  Strength really does seem to depend on  getting just the right 
match, & sometimes an apparently weak parent (I  mostly use them for 
pollen here) produces suprisingly strong  babies.>>
 
Speaking to foliage health and strength in particular, which of the  
reblooming irises would you say are giving the best seedlings?  
 
After a few years of talk on here, I gave in and made the Harvest of  
Memories X Gratuity cross which I planted out in May.  The notes on the  reblooming 
seedling from HOM X Fringe Benefits didn't hurt either.  It is  NOT a strong 
cross.  Quite possibly a dead end.  
 
Even though I watered faithfully with the soaker hoses, I lost a large  
number of new seedlings.  Usually, only a few die and others have the  failure to 
grow and die eventually.  This year, several died the first  season.  Maybe 
this was Mother Natures way of telling me I'm pushing  the envelope?? 
 
In the crosses with Vanishing Act, Romantic Evening was inferior to Night  
Game as to plant health.  One of the crosses that I planted ALL of the  
seedlings was the Lunar Whitewash X Romantic Evening.  There were  fifty-six.  This 
cross and the HOM cross took the heaviest  losses.  Unlike the HOM seedlings,  
the survivors in LW X RE seem  quite healthy.   
 
 
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