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Patrick Orr
P*@Hotmail.com
Zone 9
Region 15
Member: AIS, TBIS, SDIS (local)
----- Original Message -----
From:
l*@mailhub.icx.net
To: i*@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 5:26
AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HIST: SPEC:
Paltec (pallida crosses)
Before I read the World of Irises and learned that crosses of
with
pallida were difficult, and before I knew where the stigmatic lip was
on
an iris bloom, I was merrily smearing modern TB pollen on the crest
of
the style arm of pallida blooms and getting lots of seeds. From
the
list back in the early days, I learned this supposedly wasn't
easy.
Now, there are lots of little F2 seedlings coming along from
those
crosses and a whole row of ugly little pallida X TB
seedlings.
I also managed to get a pod with a few seeds from RASPBERRY
JAM (modern
SDB) x I. germanica ("sterile" IB) this year.
But DUSKY
CHALLENGER never seems to make pollen here. And CRYSTAL
GLITTERS,
according to one lister, never makes pollen for her, but I
have a big row
of seedings from GOLDEN APPLE x CRYSTAL GLITTERS.
So, just because some
folks have not had success with particular species
crosses doesn't mean
it's impossible, or even necessarily difficult - if
just means that under
their growing conditions, with their plants, it
didn't work. There
was a recent article somewhere (the Bulletin?) about
successful IB crosses
- something else that is supposed to be very
difficult.
My guess is
that you've got what you think you've got, Jan.
Linda Mann east
Tennessee USA
wishing I had a nice batch of tectorum to make my own pallida
crosses.
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