Oncoseason 2010

[David Nicholson]

 

[arillady]

Fred I was wondering when you wrote awful - I know you prefer species ...but,,,
Thanks David for the clarification.  Had to have a good laugh then about how easy it is to say the wrong thing and be misconstrued with our meaning.
Fred you are forgiven. 
Davey in the early days of growing these I just wanted more as I knew I could not get many seeds (or plants) from elsewhere after David Shahak did not sell seed anymore so I would cross anything flowering at the time.
Nowadays I do look at plants a little differently. I do try to cross similar ones that I like to keep that look going. If I have a straight species I cross with another clone or maybe a hybrid.  If I have one that I really like the shape and markings and it is not such a great plant I will cross it with a stronger looking plant. I also like to try to get more defined 'signals'.
Simple stategies

[fermi de Sousa]

Pat,
I like what you have achieved so far! Keep on crossing!
Otto suggests that my climate may suit them and we have room for another raised sand bed, so I'll be in touch!
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Thank's David.; I mean awesome of course and didn't know awful wasn't very nice    I'll try to remember

I was going to say "you have to be kidding," Fred.

[Hans A.]

Fantastic Oncohybrids, Pat! Great to see which results you got by avanced crossing and recrossing - the plants have the beauty of the species, even it is impossible to see which species are involved.

[arillady]

A few photos taken yesterday.

[PeterT]

I like all these Pat, but the first is especially pretty to my eye

[Lesley Cox]

They are all gorgeous. I guess influence from a regular bearded iris is seen in the first, slightly ruffled standards?

[arillady]

No tall bearded in any of the ones I have shown so far Lesley except for the first one shown on September 21st.
A few photos taken this morning - I was able to do a little pollinating before I ran out of time.
PT0423 plus closeup Assorted good x Iris urmiensis
Assorted good hybrids
I have to find my records as most of this tag has faded but it is Sheba's Jewel x ..... This one Lesley has tall bearded in it.
And a closeup
PT0327 Iris mariae x Iris hermona hybrid (yellow)
PT9848 with a closeup Assorted good hybrids x Iris jordana (87 seeds)
55. Meirav x Iris samaraie (light colour)
53. Tira Nurseries Seed Mixture
I will add a couple more photos to another post

[arillady]

50. Aril x Iris samaraie (samariae form)
PT0425 (53) Tira Nurseries Seed Mixture x (62)Hila x samariae(?) x sib (yellow with orange brown signal)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A further avalanche of beautiful Iris Pat !!! 
You make it look so easy...

[Hans A.]

Superb!

[PeterT]

fantastic! the one with TB blood has an amazing branching too!! with the full oncolook too  the hybredists in more shelterd areas will be after its genes poor thing

[arillady]

I have shown most of the flowers that have bloomed this year hence all the postings.
Peter - Sheba's Jewel has been used a lot in breeding already. There are a number I think that are very similar.
With the abundant rain this year all the tall bearded and related irises have done extremely well - hence the size of that Sheba's Jewel cross. I did note that branching which was a surprise. Another stalk in the same cross has a lilac bud.
We have had some delightful 23-25C days lately, good for growth but the beginning of the drying out of the garden. At least we did not get the really early 30C day like in September last year. Bloom season will be late on roses and tall bearded I feel.

[arillady]

The AB Sheba's Jewel x again showing the now opened lilac bud.
Another AB Solar Wind x from the ASI seed exchange.
Iris sari ex AMcM budding up
Shooting into the sun to try to get the tissue paper effect.
This is a question mark iris as it somehow lost its tag
And viewed from the opposite side.