Oncos 2012

[Otto Fauser]

Pat and Peter , great to see your first blooms of the season . -much earlier than here and Peter your Sydney climate is much more ideal to grow oncos than here in Olinda ,where I struggle .

[Peterwg]

After 26 years, the first Iris Haynei from my own seed!   It is amazing just how long onco seed remain viable if carefully stored!  This one was embryo cultured 22 months ago and has several buds.

[Maggi Young]

I can well imagine you are pleased with that Peter. Great photo of the flower, too.
In my ignorance of such matters, it seems that 22 months from embryo culture to flower is pretty speedy - and after 26 years, I suppose it is!

[PeterT]

After 26 years, the first Iris Haynei from my own seed!   It is amazing just how long onco seed remain viable if carefully stored!  This one was embryo cultured 22 months ago and has several buds.

well done! 

[BULBISSIME]

Congratulations Peter ! and the flower is perfect !!

[arillady]

Peter what a beautiful flower from one of nature's survivor plants. 26 years must be a record. Your wife had to put up with them in the refrigerator for a heck of a long time so at least it is worth it when they grow and flower!! 

[arillady]

Patch 16. So many of the early blooms are brownish. interesting

PT0010 and closeup. I jordana x I hermona hybrid

PT0509 hermona hybrid x I. atropurpurea.
So many are coming out in bloom - why did I decide to leave them just in bloom season???

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Fabulous flowers Pat !!!

[BULBISSIME]

Well done Pat ! always very nice flowers in your garden

[arillady]

A 2004 cross whose tag has faded.
PT0022 - I love the richness of this bloom colour
PT0316 maybe- starting to blend in together.
Two different crosses in patch 10 - note the large attachment where the lip should be
PT0579 - I do love this brown.

[Oron Peri]

Pat the 2004 cross seems like a lortetii - hermona,
the rosy-yellow color on the base of the standad make me think of lorteti

[Peterwg]

Pat, I never get tired of looking at your pictures.  They take my breath away.    I have a seedling, Camillae X onco which is shown here.   At 22 months old this clump has twelve buds/flowers.   Is this a characteristic of Camillae (schelkownikowii?)?   Or just some sort of hybrid vigour?

[BULBISSIME]

Very vigorous plant indeed Peter ! For sure looks like I. schelkownikowii hybrid, not I. camillae, and I. schelkownikowii is a short but very floriferous plant. Do you feed them ?

[Peterwg]

Hi  Fred, I incorporated rose food, dolomite and bone meal into the bed after scraping away the top three or four inches, then replaced the unfertilised top layer, but there are a lot of other seedlings in the bed, growing well but not like this.   I have a picture of the pod parent somewhere, imported from the ASI plant sale as I. Camillae, but my organisation of old slides is deficient .... but it looked a lot like the camillae shown by Hans - just not as blue.   This plant is more vigorous than anything I have seen previously, and there is a paler sib with four blooms, ec'd the same day

[BULBISSIME]

I Peter, thank's for informations but what is Rose food ?  Fertilizer for roses ?
The iris camillae shown by hans is I. schelkownikowii and you're right, your hybrid is incredibly strong and floriferous. I'm not specialized in hybrids but this kind of primary hybrids are beautiful, especially this one ! congratulations... well grown too of course