Re: Welcome

>...cranberry one sounds promising. Have you tried any selfing to bring up recessive genes?
Christy Hensler,
Thank you for info. By selfing, do you mean crossing with itself? If you
do, I have one group of seedlings produced that way, no flowers yet. I
have not been confident that my seed pods are always the result of what
I think I did. Some never take, which indicates I was doing something
wrong, because this is one prolific species :-)So I always give a
guarded "yes" to any query about "my" crosses. I think they are mostly
mine. I was interested in your comment about selfing to bring up
recessive genes. What is the value of that to a line? Is it to see what
all is available in any given flower? Is that a wise thing to do with
perhaps all the plants I am interested in breeding? And how many seed do
you think it would take to produce the full display in one flower's gene
pool? I know you're gasping now at the text book you are going to have
to write to answer that, but I really was serious. I'm very curious in
that area because I have another line that perhaps you can explain to
me: They are setosa that have no signal, just a line coming out of
throat. The best one is deep purple. I separated this group so that if
there was any open pollination, it still should be primarily among the
several different "no-signals" I have. The first group of seedlings from
these flowered last summer. Pretty disappointing. Of 84 plants, only 2
had no signal, neither superior to what I already have. I have to admit
this is a 1st generation crossing (what I mean is I crossed a collected
no-signal w/another collected no-signal.)Ground floor. As bottom as you
can be in a breeding program. I also don't know which plant x'd with
which. Should I self each one of the originals to see what I have? I'm
assuming because of the low success rate, that there is a lot more of
the signal trait in it than the no-signal trait, which kind of indicates
it was a fresh mutation in that bog, or recessive(?) or who knows? I
don't. If I knew these answers, I might know a direction to take with
this line. What do you think? Oh yes, one more question if I continue to
breed this line together, will it cause the trait to intensify
(strengthen) or throw higher percentage?
> My interests have been the unusual plant in the pack...recessives, and long >crosses.......I've been working with a cross I made of JI and SIB.
 This rings a bell as a difficult cross, tho I'm not sure what goes into
making it difficult. I assume it takes a certain knowledge level to make
certain crosses. Is the x an interesting one - did you do it just to see
what it produced or are you aiming for a clear idea in your head? Either
aim would be worthy to me personally. I have to admit I find the
pictures of Japanese Iris to be among the most beautiful of any iris
(I've never seen one in real life). I would love to be able to grow
them. I actually have one setosa line that I'm trying to conform to the
Japanese look, I like it so much. 
Kathy Haggstrom
hagg@alaska.net
Anchorage, AK
Zone 3

> 
> Christy Hensler
> Newport, WA zone 4
> 
> ps. You mentioned that SIBs will die out on you. I've got a couple of oldies here that might be worth a shot. Both have gone through at least -29 with almost no snow and have increased nicely every year. One is dark blue and the other is white.....have no idea on names.
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