Re: :HYB:Pod Vs Pollen Parent




On 20 Oct 2002 at 20:34, PATSY NORVELL wrote:

> I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I thought I'd throw it in.  
> My friend, a commercial hybridizer, told me that when breeding for
> broken color flowers, the broken color iris must be the pod parent. 
>  Anyone care to comment?
>                                   Pat in Dallas


Pat, you'll probably get more broken color seedlings that way, and
then, on the other hand, you can get none!  I have used MARIA TORMENA 
both ways and get very few broken color blooms from her.  Some crosses
have produced none, even when both parents were broken color.  JILTED
did likewise.  I have been told that using a plicata father  on a
broken color mother will yield a high percentage of broken color
children - not proven in my patch.

ZIGGY comes from Autumn Bugler x Faux Pas, neither being broken color.
 Z has given broken color when crossed to broken color and has yielded
much improved form, coming from FAUX PAS, I'm sure.

CRIMSON TIGER  and INFERNAL FIRE  seem to represent another departure
in broken color genes, IF in particular.  Some of the blooms, to me,
don't appear to be the usual broken color pattern of stripes and
splashes.  Sometimes the color is 'speckled and daubed'.  Whatever,
the parentage shows no broken color.  These two are from reciprocal
crosses.  It might be interesting to cross  these  with QUANDARY and
PUCCINI.  Some IF children show broken color stalks and spathes.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8  (The ground is broken and wet, and the irises
are in the pots yet!)

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