Re: HYB: Conjuration (was thornbird crosses)
- Subject: Re: HYB: Conjuration (was thornbird crosses)
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:18:23 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
Sterling Okase writes:
> Somewhere in one of the more recent bulletins there is an article by
> George Sutton regarding breeding SA iris. One comment that sticks in my
> head is that he said when you cross two SA irises, the seedlings tend to
> be very messed up. I can't remember the exact words he used but
> apparently very unstable, missing petal parts, extra petal parts etc.
> etc.
Sterling,
The article in question is "Plumed Delight" and is printed on pp. 42-44 of
the April, 1997 AIS Bulletin. Your recollection of the effects of crossing
SA's with each other are quite consistent with what George Sutton says in
this article. He does go on to add, "if you are willing to put up with a
lot of failures, you can occasionally get some extraordinary seedlings from
this type of cross".
> Also, Conjuration is not a plicata as far as I know so I wouldn't worry
> about crossing it to blue plicatas unless that is what you are after.
Right again! There are no plicatas among the named ancestors in the first
four generations of CONJURATION's pedigree. I guess it could be described
as a bicolor/bitone with a zonal pattern in the falls.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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