HYB: sdlgs, pedigrees, Tempo Two, etc

Reading pedigrees again....I see a lot of pedigrees that list an
unregistered sibling of something that was introduced.  Sometimes, the
same unregistered seedlings will show up in several pedigrees.
Occasionally, the same seedling will show up in pedigrees of irises of
hybridizers other than the person who bred it.

I guess there are a lot of reasons that an unregistered plant would be
used in a breeding program...Maybe the better, introduced sibling is
completely sterile or pod/pollen infertile or unreliably fertile. Maybe
it doesn't increase well enough to be a good commercial plant or isn't
healthy enough.  Maybe the one that isn't introduced has a more
desirable pattern or colors, but other faults that make it not worth
introducing.

Although my growing conditions mean I can't really plan most of my
crosses ahead of time, I like to think about it anyway.  And I wish
there were a way to find out the colors and patterns of these seedlings.

For example, in the current Tempo Two catalog, several cultivars list a
SHADOWS sib in their pedigree, usually as pollen parent.  Looking in the
R&I's, I see that F175-1 is the seedling used.  It's in the pedigree of
HOLD MY HAND, ENCHANTER, LULLABYE LIGHT, ROMANTIC GENTLEMAN, and BABYLON
QUEEN.

What does F175-1 look like?  Does KK grow it?  Will it be introduced one
day?  Must be something really good to have produced all those lovelies!

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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