Updated: 05/15/02

91-1: Gene's Little Secret X Ginger's Girl. From my work toward fertile arilbredmedians, a large number of uniformly good seedlings. Because the real GLS produces a wide variety of seedlings, this suggests that the parent used in this cross was the imposter. I therefore registered the best, 91-1-47, as a quarterbred and named it Ruth Keith.

91-21: Anon X Boaz. Continuing to test Gene's ideas about the usefulness of pink plicatas with arilbreds (I'd repeat this cross today if I hadn't lost Anon) I hit the jackpot. The most unusual, 91-21-13, was a variegated ground overlaid with dotting and veining to give a mixture of white, yellow, rust, and violet in a no-two-flowers-alike splatter-paint pattern. It was introduced as Beadwork.

91-27 Goddess X Tribe of Judah. Testing glaciatas with my best signal-transmitter, I got an array of complex patterns. Sibling # 91-27-2 had flaring falls that really showed off its intricate signal, so it became Flaunt It.

91-34: Rose Colored Glasses X Hindu Magic. One of my many tests involving cytoplasmic inheritance. In this case, the maternal line traces back to I. korolkowii. The offspring included many with korolkowii-like veining and some with korolkowii-like signals. The best plant, 91-34-2, became World Wide Web.

91-36 Altogether Lovely X Persian Smoke. A cross made with hopes for a breakthrough in pink but no expectations. Altogether Lovely is one of those rare arilbreds that has just enough tangerine under the pinkish blush that it actually becomes pinker with age. Persian Smoke was the pinkest TB I had available at the time. They produced a number of interesting offspring, among them the pink and yellow blend, 91-36-1 = Pixilated, and the honey-yellow near-self, 91-36-11 = Kiss of Honey.

91- 54: Ht24-T X Chinese Empress. After many years of crossing tetraploid arils and tetraploid TBs without producing any worthwhile first-generation offspring, I hit the jackpot. Sibling # 91-54-1 not only has the desired aril form, but it transmits huge signals and onco-like beards to its offspring when paired with a wide variety of halfbreds. It has been registered as Worth Waiting For.