Breeding/Hybridizing Louisiana Irises
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Read more: Expanding the Tetraploid Gene Pool by J. Farron Campbell
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- Category: Breeding/Hybridizing Louisiana Irises
Read more: Using Herbicide Treatments to Induce Tetraploidy in LA Irises
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Read more: Colchicine-induced Polyploidy by Samuel N. Norris
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Terry Aitken reports on a variagated Louisiana iris in his nursery in Vancouver, Washington and speculates what may have caused this to occur.
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One of my first experiences with Louisiana irises was when I was a teenager in Massachusetts, growing a rather large collection of them on the protected west side of my parents house and heavily mulched for the winter with leaves and pine boughs. Two of the most impressive ones in that group were two brilliant reds: William McGarvey's 'Devil'sAdvocate' (1972) and Preston Hale's 'Red Dazzler' (1969). Although 'Red Dazzler' is still available, I would love to find 'Devil'sAdvocate' as it had marvelously round petals, much better than any other fulvas I have seen since, and it also rebloomed in October in Mass. Maybe one of our readers still grows the plant? Anyway, these reds were like nothing else in irisdom and they were very intriguing to me. Unfortunately, academics and career prevented me from capitalizing on these as hybridizing objects.
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Read more: Efforts to Breed a True Red Louisiana Iris by Kevin Vaughn*
Over the past several years the late Samuel Norris of Kentucky and I have tried every trick in the book to get a higher number of tetraploid Louisiana iris seedlings. The two main obstacles seem to be poor seed set during bloom season and low germination of the few seed that are produced.
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Read more: Tetraploid Louisiana Iris Hybridizing -- Helpful Hints by William R. Bruner*
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