Re: REB: surprising result - genetics
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: REB: surprising result - genetics
  • From: B* W* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:45:28 -0400
It really seems random.  Or does it.  I've had rebloom from seedlings (25%)
from Total Recall X Star Gate x (Violet Returns x Breakers).  Not as good but
still rebloom from Again and Again X Echo Location.  3/12.  Seems the stronger
the rebloom of both parents, the better the chance of 


Renown must really
fluctuate from area to area.  Haven't seen a lot out of it here, but I hope
I'm not done yet.  


Just keep breeding in the rebloom and watch for the
pretty ones!  ;-)   



<<If Chuck's theory that 'summer' (i.e., August)
rebloom genes are 
recessive, and if these Renown seedlings are 'summer'
bloomers like IMM, 
numbers are way too small, but enough evidence to
speculate that Renown 
might carry 3 copies of summer.>>





Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann
<101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Sep 7, 2014 7:00
pm
Subject: [iris] REB: surprising result - genetics


Immortality X Matrix
gave one cycle rebloomer out of 10 surviving 
seedlings.   I was surprised by
that.

Matrix is a very reliable early fall cycle rebloomer here, and has
produced one (unreliable) August (late summer) seedling in a cross with 
Tea
Leaves.  Only two surviving seedlings from Matrix X Tea Leaves, so I 
repeated
the cross last year, too soon to get more numbers.

But having gotten one
seedling that bloomed here in Aug from Matrix, I 
expected to see some Aug
bloom from Imm X Matrix, but no.

Bigger surprise is Immortality X Renown.
Renown occasionally cycle 
reblooms here (usually right before freeze - Oct),
but isn't reliable, 
and rarely produces rebloom children in my growing
conditions.

Of three surviving seedlings, one maiden bloomed Sept 2, 2013 and
a 
second one is blooming now, Sept 7, 2014.  Haven't checked for stalks on
the other two.

Immortality hasn't been blooming much this summer, started up
about a 
week ago, so now I'm thinking Renown may match the IMM rebloom genes
better than Matrix does.

If Chuck's theory that 'summer' (i.e., August)
rebloom genes are 
recessive, and if these Renown seedlings are 'summer'
bloomers like IMM, 
numbers are way too small, but enough evidence to
speculate that Renown 
might carry 3 copies of summer.

Wishful thinking...
but....

Linda Mann
east TN USA zone 7
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