Re: Re: TB: Fading colors (was color, oldies

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From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: TB: Fading colors (was color, oldies


>
> Betty and Griff, you mention seeing this phenom in some of your
> seedlings.  Betty, do you think this may be more of a problem in the
> rebloom lines we are working with?  Griff, you also use rebloom some,
> but also oldies - any sense of whether or not this is more likely to be
> a problem with the oldies/rebloomer gene pools?

Linda  --  The cross of 012A5 was G952N2:(Holy Night x Best Bet) x Dusky
Challenger, so there's a good bit of rebloomer genes there.


> Any of you notice much of this extreme seasonal/year to year color
> change in storebought cultivars?  From what Donald says (on photos),
> plus the ones that both Betty and Griff (and I) have noticed, it seems
> to be more noticeable (?) with blue pigments and blue combined with
> yellow/pink (i.e., brown, red).

And, yes, they're all in the blue spectrum.  --  Griff
>
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