Re: some more questions

Hi Christy, and robins,
 I would like to try some of the JI/SI crosses this year. Any hints or tricks to
making it so? I do have frozen pollen to use. Have you tried tets? Thanks, Jim.

Hensler wrote:

> Hi Sergey,
>
> SHAPE SHIFTER was registered last season. With luck, we might see some of
> her first kids bloom this coming year and they'll certainly be large enough
> to bloom in 2004. As fertile as she is, it's unlikely (unless her seedlings
> are as fertile as she is) that they can be developed as a self sustaining
> group so are simply referred to as a species hybrid.
>
> With the Ensiberians, nearly all of the F1s were fertile and all came from
> crosses of JI pod parent and Siberian pollen parent (regardless of what they
> wound up looking like). They can easily develop into a separate class of
> irises. "Ensiberian" reflects the fact that Mom was the JI.
>
> The first of the F3 Siberian types bloomed last year and if what we saw was
> typical, visual differences between the hybrids and the parental species are
> becoming more pronounced as the generations advance.
>
> The first crosses between the 2 types should bloom next season or the
> following year. What they'll look like is anyone's guess.
>
> Christy
> Skip & Christy Hensler
> THE ROCK GARDEN
> Newport, WA
> http://www.povn.com/rock/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sergey Loktev" <s.loktev@mtu-net.ru>
>
> SHAPE SHIFTER. When did you registered it - last year?
> >     As to ALLY OOPS, I read the following in R&I brochure: "Parentage
> unknown - presumed siberian x pseudacorus". Can we say something about the
> parentage for sure now?
> >     Christy uses sign JS for results of JA x SIB crosses. But among her
> own that kind of cultivars there was one from SIB x JA cross. Should we mark
> it also JS or on the contrary - SJ? Do you think the results of both kinds
> of crosses could be combine into one class in the future? If so, what name,
> do you think is better - ensibs or sibsatas? It also concerns the results of
> many other interspecies crosses (say, sibcolors or versibs; pseudatas or
> encoruses etc.). How many cultivars should we obtain to form a new class or
> maybe it's a wrong question?
>
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