Re: HYB: triploid crosses?


Barry Blyth used Zing Me a lot to get the pumila spot in taller iris. I'm
using a number of IBs without problems. Concertina is definitely ertile.

Colleen Modra
Impressive Irises

PO Box 169
Charleston  SA 5244

irises@senet.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris-talk" <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:08 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: triploid crosses?


> There was some discussion here & an article in the AIS bulletin some
> time recently (since we've been 'talking') about supposed 'infertility'
> in IBs.  People were crossing IBs with TBs all over the place, proving
> that a lot of them will cross and produce pods.
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> Any rumors from anybody of anything worthwhile coming from those or
> similar crosses?  Some hybridizers were pursuing moving the 'spot'
> pattern from SDBs into TBs that way and had gotten some spotted BBs, I
> believe.  Not sure if other traits have been 'moved up' or not.
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> Both the article and this forum had some lists of IBs that had been used
> successfully in crosses with TBs.
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> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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