Re: Jennifer Rebecca

Paul  --  Your experience with setting any seeds at all with JENNIFER
REBECCA pollen gives me some hope.  I had concluded that JR was not pollen
fertile, based on countless attempts over three seasons in the mid-1990s.
Only because I had had the initial success have I kept on trying to get it
to set seed.  Actually, on re-checking my records, I see that I had 4 pods,
rather than 3, in that first year.  They were by Summer Olympics, Triple
Whammy, 988-1 (a Clarence Mahan seedling) and 93U5 (a seedling of mine
involving Schiaparelli).  They produced 4, 5, 9 and 4 seeds, respectively.
Germination was 2 of 4, 3 of 5, 1 of 9 and 0 of 4 (which is why I forgot
this last one).  I was never able to duplicate those crosses, though.  I had
an incipient pod on JR this year by Brave New World (I'll try anything), but
it did not mature.  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: <pharcher@mindspring.com>
To: <iris@HORT.NET>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] Jennifer Rebecca


> Just a note of interest on the comment below.  I had heard Jennifer
Rebecca is somewhat pollen fertile so I have tried some over the years.
This year my first successful pod contained 3 seeds on one of my RED Frank
Adams seedlings X Jennifer Rebecca.  Alas, only three seeds so I plan to
make a whole lot more on this Frank Adams seedling next year with Jennifer
Rebecca.
>
> Let's just hope they most germinate when I do get them.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jgcrump <jgcrump@erols.com>
> Sent: Oct 23, 2005 3:00 PM
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: [iris] Zurbrigg irises
>
>
> Turning to the others of Lloyd's irises that I, particularly, am concerned
> with, I would list, first, JENNIFER REBECCA (Grace Thomas X Vanity),
> Avonbank,1984.   Don Spoon often used to say that JR was the most
beautiful
> iris he'd ever seen, rebloomer or no.  It has exceptional beauty and
grace, in
> my opinion, and I have been working doggedly for 10 years to try to get it
to
> set seed again.  The first year that it bloomed for me, 1994, I got pods
on it
> from three different pollen parents.  The hellacious wet, icy winter of
1995
> wiped out whole rows of my seedlings, including all of the JR seedlings.
I've
> never been able to get another pod, but will continue trying, because its
> color, form and branching are just as good now, in my opinion, as they
were a
> decade ago.
>
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