GreenIris said:Joe: Curious what is L & S material? Also I am SO glad you still have this one and Necklace!!!
That is the term (line & speckle) I have used to signify the new pattern that showed up in my seedlings. It is number 88-180P in my pedigrees. It was never introduced since I couldn't increase it enuf for release. This pattern is distinctive and not related to plicatas. This pattern actually was hinted at in in the earlier Hamner irises, CINNAMON SUN and its sib, CROWD PLEASER. No one at the time recognized it at time the significant breakthru that they were. When 88-180P bloomed I soon made the connection that Cinnamon Sun already hinted at this pattern. For three years, I tried to make the cross between the two with no success. I sent Keith Keppel a rhizome of 88-180P. The next year in Oregon, I made the cross there again and Keith did as well. Setting pods in Oregon didn't seem to be a problem. When the resulting seedlings bloomed for me and Keith, the cross made a huge leap of moving the pattern forward. I ultimately introduced IMPLUSIVE and Keith QUANDARY. Note that the Johnson lined irises go back to this cross, most noteable, Implusive. This is the backstory to the Line & Speckle line of breeding and the pink/blue pictured, tho unknown parentage it undoubtedly goes back to 88-180P,
