Re:CULT: Texas 1942 trial
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re:CULT: Texas 1942 trial
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:25:13 -0500
Thanks for sharing this, Shaub. Wow - a ton of bloom on some of these things.
This is one of those times when I really miss Mike Lowe's presence on this earth. He was working to get the older registration information into a coherent form online so we could do pedigree searches. It would be interesting to see if there are obvious commonalities for the ones that put up a lot of blooms.
That said, back when I first started my long quest that ending in a long breeding program, I did a lot of pedigree searches of the irises that did well for me, thinking that might help me find more that would do well here. It's a clue, but there is such a wide range of adaptability amongst siblings from one cross, it's not necessarily going to sort out anything useful. 

Unless they all turn out to have exactly the same parents ;-)
In the early days, I tried to chase all the way back to species. Nearly all of them had pallida and variegata (big surprise), but as I recall, a large number of them also had other species in the mix - Paul Cook's stuff and some others, I think.
I've attempted to grow very few of the irises on that list- Quaker Lady, some kind of pallida/odoratissima, some form of germanica, florentina (I think), Loreley, possibly flavescens. I think there are scraps of all of these still alive, plenty of pallida and germanica. 

Presumably, a high rating is better than a low one?

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