[SpaceAgeRobin] SAGE: Wild Wings att. Mogensen

I have Wild Wings blooms opening. My understanding is that pollen should be used on SAs to provide some of the data we seek. Is this correct? Do you want it on anything else?

Smiles,
Bill Burleson



Previous from Mogensen:
THE FIRST QUESTION The first is the report from Mike Sutton about the single fall of one bloom on WILD WINGS noted in their growing fields with a full-fledged flounce. That event speaks very loudly about something unusual going on. Combining this with the history of the emergence of SA irises from non-SA ancestors is the other. This happened in several places, the first probably in the Sass’ growing fields, then in seedlings with about half their ancestry from Sass foundations for Lloyd Austin. Later in the late fifties, two separate incidents where SA varieties emerged occurred farther south in California, one of which was among the seedlings of Tom Craig. Both had Sass varieties in their ancestries—but what iris with any other color other than blue, violet or white didn’t have?


CROSS TYPE TWO tests for the presence of SA offspring in condition 1). The specific varieties mentioned—ROMANTIC EVENING (and its offspring WILD WINGS may well have the same), DYNAMITE, QUITO and so forth should provide at least ONE parent that can be used in a cross with one of those listed with a simple horn. Expected results: few if any SAs in the first generation, or with some parents, fewer than half showing ANY sign of SA development. It is possible that different non-producing parents have different dosages of an inhibitor or normalizing process. The WILD WINGS chimera suggests some ONE factor knocked out of the biochemical process allowed an SA event to occur. This does not rule out there being more than one such normalizing process at work in bearded irises, however.
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