New Seedling

THese are two new tall bearded seedling that opened today
This first is from Dark Passion X Galactic Warrior

06DPgw04

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This is from Devil's Fork X Dark Passion
06DFdp02

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Here is a close up of the beard

I love the 2nd one! beautiful!!!

Here is another Devil's Fork X Dark Passion
06DFdp04

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ANd a close up of the beard
that looks like a double beard

But it wasn't a second beard
:)
A

Very nice! and since your first love are Arils and the little uns:)

Great photo's as always

D

A-MAZE-ING!!!

Here is another of the Devil Fork X Dark Passion babies, nothing special but it continues with this cross and neither parent displayed it
but so far all the offspring have

06DFdp03

Here are the parents
this is Dark Passion

This is Galactic Warrior

And this is Devil's Fork

WOW!

wish these had been at Spoon's for Dyer to critique - would love to see hear what he would have said.

Just learning (compliments of Dee and Keppel) and have some seed pods -my first! - and need to learn all about evaluating seedlings. Love the blacks and deep purples. These look yummy anita - well, all except that passenger, there....that not so yummy...

bonita

They were blooming when I got home from the Spoon's but I will probably send them this year or next for Don and Ginny to Critique. Thankfully Ginny will pull no punches, but both will give their honest opinion and that will probably determine the fate of these guys. DFdp03 will probably not make the cut.

I would have loved for Perry to have evaluated these but maybe another time or at a convention.

It is so hard not to get excited especially after my first fiasco that ended up with everything in compost. All so horrible I did not even wait for all of them to bloom.

hmmm Keith Keppel warned me he composted 99% of his. He saw me admiring one in his seedling bed and came over to me. I told him it was the most beautiful iris I'd ever seen. It looked like dark velvet, with a gilt edge of silver thread. He immediately ripped the bloom to pieces - to my horror, I had no idea what was going on at that time though I understand it better now - explaining how bad the form was, and yanked it up, explaining it was compost. I was near tears. Then he gave me a quick lesson on what to look for in a seedling. At the time, I was so mortified that I never spoke a word about any other iris while I was there! NOW I'm just beginning to get the idea after seeing a few more seedling beds! LOL

So you are in very good company! I'm tickled I have any pods at all. Think out of almost 200 crosses, I have 10 pods forming. Dee explained I was doing a few things VERY wrong. oh well.

[LOL - I figured the hotter the better, guess some like it HOT does NOT apply to irises! Then again, it was my child that wanted to breed her hamsters and read online that "when the female is ready for the male, she'll freeze, so DD turned the thermstat to 90 in the dead of winter. Like daughter like mom.....]

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Here is a new Baby Opened this AM
I am Just astounded by these thick beards,
Devil's Fork X Dark Passion
Still has small horn at end of beard though less noticeable

Not so New Baby this is Mesa Pearl X Gin Game a Siberian

This is SMPu08 and Mesa Pearl X unknown
Very tall for a tet and a self

Here is a better picture of the horn for the last Devil's Fork Offspring

Anita, I LOVE seeing seedlings. Which one of those above are your favorite so far? DARK PASSION looks like a lovely parent. How does it grow for you?

Bonjon, what a story!! But, at this point I can understand both what you were feeling and what Keith K. was feeling too. I don't tear up my flowers as he does and rip them out right away though. LOL I just put a red ribbon on them "telling me" to rip it out later. I allow them to bloom just because I spent all that time hybridizing them and growing them. I figure the seedlings should at least have their say and enjoy their appearance. ^_^

~ Margie

Margie if I could put the beard of this one 06DFdp02 on the form of this one
06DPgw04, I'd be reall happy. But the Blue SIB has me the TBs may all get better with age as this is the maiden bloom for them all or they may all go to pot time will tell.

BonJon I have to rip them out when their bloom is just so horrendous there is just no possible redemption, other than that every one gets a second bloom season but I mark those I did not like and try to be honest and I am probably too hard on my seedling but they have to have some minimal standard and a look to make me consider them for a third year.

Anita, I can see why the Blue SIB has you! I have a feeling your TB's will get better with age. Most of them do for me anyway; only a small percentage of TB maiden blooms actually seem to look worse the following year. You know - - many times I will even hold on to my 'half way decent' seedlings for the third year now. Why? To see if they have rebloom potential. Two rebloomers that I Introduced took 3 years for that rebloom gene to appear. In the case of Sedona Sunset it blooms 3 times a year: Spring, Fall and Winter.

Keep up the good work, Anita. And keep posting those babies of yours. It is such a treat!

~Margie

Anita, that beard is something else, how thick is that thing? the tall tet that looks blue in the photo has my vote - am going to try sibs next

can I trust both of you to hold my hands when I have to be blunt on my own seedlings? I am going to be hard- I'll be comparing them to keith's garden!

bytheby, the potato thing is working...so far..... and dee's extra hints had a few late bloomers take, so I have almost as many pods as the bees and false pregnancies.

Went nuts this afternoon trying to use some I. pumila pollen. The anthers are so fragile, they kept breaking. I've managed once before so have my fingers crossed that the crosses work.

IrisMA Take a Q-tip pull most of the cotton off and try that
:)
A

Another trick I use, you know the orange peeler, usually orange that you peel oranges with, and they are CHEAP:) I have taken the pointed end and roughed it up quite a bit and the pollen of anything seems to stay, then clean right after you use...

I have getting very good takes on Sibs with this tool

D

Keep posting those wonderful babies Anita...

I will try the Q-tip as the anthers are so small. Dee-I don't have much trouble with the larger anthers as they are usually fresh, I do have an old potato peeler.

(need potato peeler on this potato!)

This is the last of the seedlings for the year out in the rain to get this shot and lucky I did Thunderstorms and hail to it and the last bud