Re: AIS Scientific community
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] AIS Scientific community
- From: a*@toad.net
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:07:16 -0500 (EST)
> The most important factor for me, with my own growing conditions in
> mind,
> are to breed for durable drought tolerant JI-type plants and to increase
> the
> number of forms in the SIB-types. The most blended looking hybrid is of
> no
> use to me if it can't live through one rough season.
>
> Christy
Cristy, that is a noble goal--and one that any iris lover should be able to
understand. The JI's are unique (and I don't use that word often) within the
world of irises in that their incredible diversity of form is demonstrated
purely within the single species, I. ensata. I credit that development to the
Japanese, who actively selected for those unusual traits.
Within the Siberians, there are several recent multipetal introductions. I have
heard at least two hybridizers comment that they had destroyed such plant
material when it occurred in their own gardens. Once again, one man's trash is
another man's treasure. I fear that the AIS Awards system tends to stiffle
creativity by setting limits, but that should be the subject of another thread.
It surprises me that the most important factors for your selections are
durability, drought tolerance and form. I was of the impression that the
validity of the success of your JI/SI crosses was.
It may not be what you had intended, but the most important result of your work
is that other hybridizers are now trying to make JI/SI crosses. (In the
scientific community, being able to replicate previous experiments is standard
procedure.) It's not often that one person's efforts have such positive results.
R. Dennis Hager
on Delmarva
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