Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] HYB; Questions

Well, maybe I should try typing something first before clicking the send 
button ;-)  Thoughts aren't enough.

Bob,

From what I read, if you cross TB x SA or SA x TB with no SA genes in its 
family tree, you may only get 20% of your seedlings showing appendages.  I 
don't think using the SA parent as a pod or pollen parent makes much of a 
difference but I haven't done enough crosses in the field to prove that. 
Just to be sure, look up your breeders in the check lists to see what's in 
their family tree.

There are some interesting articles on SA breeding in the files section, 
please check them out.  George Sutton reccomends a few breeders that are 
more likely to pass on on spoons and flounces to seedlings.  One of them was 
DAUBER'S DELIGHT.

I'd say, just go out and have fun and see what happens.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Darlington" <chrisdarlington@videotron.ca>
To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] HYB; Questions


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> From: "Robert Benbow" <benbows@yhti.net>
> To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:45 PM
> Subject: [SpaceAgeRobin] HYB; Questions
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>> Good afternoon,
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>> Next year will be my first attempt to cross for SA Iris. Having
>> hybridizing daylilies for so many years it is hard for me to understand
>> Iris inheritance is unlike lilies. After reading The World of Iris and
>> reading posts I have come to the conclusion that crossing Iris is as
>> much a genetic crap shoot as much as knowledge. Other then crossing
>> GOOD TO GOOD can you make some suggestions?
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>> If you cross say a SA to a TB do you have a better chance to getting SA
>> then if you cross TB to a SA? Has any one had better odds with one over
>> the other? or should I just stick with SA x SA ?
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>> Bob Benbow Camdenton Missouri Zone 5
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