Re: HYB: TB: Retro Iris, I. pallida

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Jeff Walters in UTAH said:
> I can verify this, as I have been growing one of Linda's [pallida] seedlings that she
> sent me. It is recklessly fertile, too, even though by rights it ought to
> be a rather infertile triploid. 

So we will call it the RIS (Retro Iris Society)?  Or the TIS (Throwback
Iris Society).  I guess if we call it the Society for Dogs, that would
confuse folks <g>.  I can see it now - our Annual Meeting will be a tour
of compost heaps of Oregon and California...

I found it to be fairly fertile also, which does make me wonder if I am
right about the parentage....But who knows, maybe the gamete doubled &
it's a tet.  Or (this is my real suspicion) what everybody grows as
'pallida' in these parts is of hybrid origin itself.  

I made this cross back before I knew where the stigma was - just smeared
a ton of pollen from a tough but unknown fluorescent fuschia TB (that
turned out to be MULBERRY ROSE) all over the style crest and apparently
got close enough.  The seedlings got off to such a slow start that I
wound up abandoning them to the fescue until a few years later, when
this one surprised me by sending up a bloom stalk.

I did some more crosses with pallida and a few dwarf, really junky,
weak, white-flowered seedlings showed up in the seedling patch.  I
wasn't keeping notes then (well, we all start somehow) and may have had
some other seeds from bee pods of something else mixed in that bed.  But
those seedlings, combined with the relative ease that the cross sets
seeds makes me wonder just exactly what this 'pallida' is.

What are you crossing it with and do you have blooming babies yet?  Am I
a grandmother?? 

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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