Re: HYB: seeds sprouting
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: HYB: seeds sprouting
  • From: B* W* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:09:43 -0500
Just wondering how long the 'Immortality' genes seem to have an effect on the
seedlings?  We've talked before about the shriveled and black anthers and the
short stalks.  Some of you things are only a small percentage Immortality so I
wondered if you are still seeing the results.  



<<Not a huge number of
crosses this year, so I'm planning to pot them in 
batches as they sprout for
a couple of months, give them a full 6 months 
for those stubborn IMM genes.>>
Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Fri,
Oct 31, 2014 11:15 am
Subject: [iris] HYB: seeds sprouting


First 5 seeds, 4
from one cross, have started to sprout.  Seeds in the 
fridge July 6-12,
nearly 4 months @ ~40oF.

Not a huge number of crosses this year, so I'm
planning to pot them in 
batches as they sprout for a couple of months, give
them a full 6 months 
for those stubborn IMM genes.

I tried a slightly
different approach this time - have to change 
something every year ;-).
Seeds were shelled as soon as they started to brown, put in the fridge 
loose
in baggies without burritoing, loosely closed baggies with twist 
ties, put
the baggies in a bigger partially closed ziplok with an apple 
section for
moisture (and maybe some ethylene).

The apple piece was replaced once or
twice when the first one turned to 
mush.

Just in case there were any soluble
seed coat inhibitors (there 
shouldn't have been in fresh seeds), I gave them
all a water rinse and 
half day soak a week or so ago.

One cross (marked 'all
bad' on the tag) had quite a few rotted seeds, a 
few in some of the others
marked 'bad'?.

I like this method best of all that I've tried so far.  With
nothing in 
the baggies with the seeds, its easy to see when they start to
sprout or 
if they are too wet or too dry.

Linda Mann
east TN USA zone 7b
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