Re: Re: HYB: breeding strategies
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Re: HYB: breeding strategies
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:03:43 -0400
I'm always on the lookout for more recent intros that will perform here in the vale. If they aren't fertile, it doesn't really matter how much newer they are :-( So I work with the "best", which aren't the most recent. Lots of cycle (i.e., frozen here) rebloomers (dominant?) , I've found few that can rebloom in southeastern hot weather (recessive?).
Breeders repeatedly say to breed the best to the best - & the best "A"'s here are, by far, IMM, (ick) BELVI QUEEN, and (double ick) AUTUMN TWILIGHT. Thank goodness BQ hasn't been fertile for me ;-) AT is fertile, but so retro, I've only had the courage to make one cross with it (RENOWN). No rebloom. UNBELIEVABLE LOVE has been a 'best' this year, but has not been fertile here. The A's I'm using were bred especially to be tolerant of erratic freezes, the 'norm' here in the vale. 

A=Always blooms, B=Beauty.
I just started buying a bunch of rebloomers the last couple of years. So far, not much luck getting any of them to rebloom at all here, much less summer bloom. RED ROCK CANYON is in the mix now, but it has those CA rebloom genes - too soon to know how they combine with 'summer' performers here. Chuck says they won't provide rebloom, but I think they might contribute next generation growth traits that will help here, if not farther north. I'd like to try growing your STEALTH FIGHTER after seeing that photo of the nice rebloom stalk in NM? AZ?, but forgot to get it this year. 

I'm open to suggestions of other heat tolerant "summer" rebloomers to try.

On 11/2/2011 9:00 PM, J. Griffin Crump wrote:

But why now go back to the 90s to regain rebloom?  Why not try working
in some recently developed rebloomers?


Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7

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