[SpaceAgeRobin] More Mischief

Seeing all the posts tonight tells me I'm not the only one with the iris itch waiting for something to happen.
 
Those of you in the southern tier--as you get known "takes" let us others farther north know what crosses took, so that we can try to match them.  I realize at this stage that identical crosses (made the same or opposite direction, both can be useful) are important, but less than perfectly possible.
 
The season is weird as all get out here too--almost all the center, primary fans have blasted--got too mature late last fall, I think, and didn't make it through the winter.  Some of them are putting up strange stalks.  Linda Mann, over the "hill" from here, says a lot of stalks have no buds.  Hmmmmm.  Frost?  Not recently.  About crocus time, we got hit time after time, ruining the early crocus and reticulatas.....
 
If we can get several pods from several gardens of the SAME crosses, it will be very, very helpful.
 
Grouping apparently similar crosses is by far a less than perfect strategy, but one with which we may be stuck for the moment until we build up a group of varieties that are the same clones.
 
Please let me or Lazy Bill know your crosses that took so we can post them (I don't care if they are a zillion years out of date or of the latest, bestest, costliest).  If we can match, we will.  That will help make our numbers carry more statistical weight.
 
Truth is, using statistical tools, it really doesn't take too many seedlings (random, if such is possible) to get a highly probably ratio for a cross.  The "p" value vanishes into infinitly small as the numbers in the sample get larger.  We want the best we can do.
 
Donald, I hope your weather holds off and you don't drown in Texas-sized rainstorms while you're at it!  Gorgeous photos from down your way--I do like that T-bird seedling a LOT.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7  Reg 4  western NC mountains

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