RE: Re: My new memebership

Ok, I'll share.

I grow mostly TB's.  Second most would be the Arilbreds, but that is a slower process and progress even slower.
I tried dabbling in the Siberians but haven't been able to do much or buy some of the newer cultivars I have wanted due to budget constraints.  I don't really have the space to grow a seedling patch for them right now anyway.

I have been breeding TB's for seven years now.  I have had limited success in breeding for true red's from Frank Adams and got my actual FIRST RED colorbreak to bloom this year.  It is a red from anthocyanin, not
from any carotenoid influence.  Of course it lacks form from its breeding, but growth is good.  Ya gotta start somewhere.  I do have others in the works also that haven't bloomed yet.  Frank Adams was not a good parent for setting seed and I had to take what I could get.  And then those seedlings were hard to get seed off of as well. Persitance pays off.

I am also mainly working on carotenoid plicatas ( i.e 'Light Beam', 'Matrix', Champagne Time'), deep oranges, deep pinks, candleabra branching,  bud count,  MTB breeding (diploid and tetraploid and rebloom in BOTH), 'Navajo Jewel' type true blues, rebloom and overall improvement of growth.

My absolute best perfomer here in Raleigh has been Select Circle, but it is hardly my a flower I like.  So far it has only tended to bloom in the Fall.  Makes it a little harder to make crosses but had one success. 




-----Original Message-----
From: Char Holte <cholte@wi.rr.com>
Sent: Sep 1, 2005 5:46 PM
To: Paul Archer <pharcher@mindspring.com>
Subject: RE: [iris] Re: My new memebership

Hi,
Welcome to our group.  Robt Pries says we are 700
strong but only a couple dozen who regularly post
to the Chat.
Tell us about the iris you grow and have grown and
share you successes and failures too.
Char, New Berlin WI

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net
[o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
pharcher@mindspring.com
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:40 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: My new memebership


Yes and Thank you, 

I have only joined the chat list this month and
had not had any knowledge of it until just then.
I apparently have immersed myself completely.  I
have been an AIS member since 1993 and growing
them longer than that.  I have not created (or
know how to create) a Bio on here and really have
no idea who the others are in this forum to know
their qualifications.   Some of the names have
vague familiarity to me.

I am mostly enjoying it so far.


I am finding the climate here in Raleigh not all
that different from Indianapolis other than it
doesn't get as cold  or quite as dry here.  Less
of my plants seem to go thru summer dormancy that
in Indianaplois and retain more leaves.
Apparently the weather around here lately has not
been normal for NC.  I don';t feel that it would
compare esily to Linda's climate all that well as
it doesn't get as humid or continuously wet around
Raleigh as often or for long time periods as it
may for her.

Paul Archer, Raleigh, NC  Zone 7


 


-----Original Message-----
From: ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
Sent: Sep 1, 2005 7:44 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Trial Garden

In a message dated 8/31/05 10:58:36 AM Eastern
Daylight Time, 
pharcher@mindspring.com writes:

<< Thanks Linda for clarifying your situation.  I
do understand,  but we all 
do
 appreciate your efforts and endeavours however
small. [...]I have no doubt 
when you do get something of value it will become
quite usefull to others in 
their efforts.>>

Paul, when did you join this list, please? Was it
really only this month or 
is that just when you first started posting? I
looked for your Bio in the 
Archives and could not find one. Did I not search
right? In any case, welcome to 
the list. You will find we are a diverse group. I
find the level of expertise on 
this list amazing. 

Further by way of welcome, since these issues
appear to interest you 
especially, please let me share the happy news
that there is nothing at the least bit 
small in Linda Mann's efforts or endeavors and we
need not, in fact, wait for 
her to accomplish something of value. She is very
modest about her 
credentials, and about reporting her activities,
but she is a highly trained scientist, a 
wholly independent thinker, and I believe it is
generally agreed that her 
work over these past many years has been some of
the most interesting and 
important experimental activity undertaken in the
world of irises. 

You are in Raleigh? Now that is a part of North
Carolina which often gets 
some unpleasant weather. I know this since my
uncle is an Emeritus Professor of 
French at Duke, in Durham, just down the road. His
wife used to grow her irises 
in Orange County. Anyway, I am aware that
hurricanes, ice storms, freak cold 
snaps, floods, all sorts of fascinating things
happen with some regularity in 
your neck of the woods. Maybe you are in a
position to offer Linda some 
personal observations which would be useful in her
work. 

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond, VA USA

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