Hello Anna Mae,
I confused you, the small plants are part of my dwarf breeding program, genetics not weather. Out of 900 seedlings about 120 are from dwarf breeding, the remainder are from normal sized parents.
I am germinating about 1000 seedlings in my dwarf progam this year. My goal is to create introductions in the same classes as bearded iris. But we can call them Dwarf Siberians 4-6", Standard Dwarf Siberians 8-12", and Intermediate Siberians around 18". I am still making crosses with Baby Sister and other know dwarfs. Summerchase Advent (10=12"), my introduction, appears to give its small stature traits to most offspring (so far about 90%)when used as the mother.
Bill
Irisquilt@aol.com wrote:
>Wow, I'm surprised you didn't get much bloom. We have just had Reg. 6 in
>Hollingworth country and his siberians were showing lots of bloom but the height
>varied a great deal. Some Michigan growers have had shorter blooming
>siberians and yes, we think it is the hot in Mar. then cold/ snow in April and 1"
>short of rain in some areas of MI. in May and into June, though 80 miles away
>Lansing is very wet.. Even in some clumps, most of clump is shorter but will
>have a few stalks at tall height. I even checked at Old Douglas where it has
>had no care in 10 years and volunteer seedlings from pods are blooming regular
>height in quack grass meadow. Sure would be difficult for hybridizers to
>know what the potential of 1-2 yr. plants are like. anna mae miller
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