Incremental Hybridizing. "How many generations did it take to produce that"

If we took a Dykes Medal Winner How many generation is it from the Species?

In galleries below; each iris to the right of the one before is one of the parents showing change from generation to generation

'Football Hero' the 2022 Dykes Medal Winner 'Football Hero' is 10 generations removed from the species: See generations below;

'Football Hero' (11th generation)	'Hoosier Dome' (10th generation)	'Startled' (9th generation)	'Howdy Do' (8th generation)
'Actress' (7th generation)	'Fond Wish' (6th generation)	'Rippling Waters' (5th generation)	'Helen McGregor (4th generation)
'Purissima' (3rd generation)	'Argentina' (2nd generation)	Iris mesopotamica (1st generation)

'Daring Deception' a 2021/20 Dykes Medal Winner 'Daring Deception is 17 generations from a species

'Daring Deception' (17th generation)	'By Jeeves' (16th generation)	'Gypsy Geena' (14th generation)	'Pharaoh's Spirit' (13th generation)
'Plume D'Or' (12th generation)	'Dance Man' (11th generation)	'Speculator' (10th generation)	'Well Endowed' (9th generation)
seedling# 71-79W (8th generation)	'New Moon' (7th generation)	'Moon River' (6th generation)	'Mixed Emotions' (5th generation)
'Azure Skies'	'Snowking' (4th generation)	'Oriana' (3rd generation)	'Lady Foster' (2nd generation)
Iris Cypriana (1st generation)

'Reckless Abandon' a 2021/20 Dykes Medal Winner 'Reckless Abandon' is 18 generations from a species

'Reckless Abandon' (19th generation)	Blyth seedling L304-1, (18th generation)	'Pirate Ahoy' (17th generation)	'Snowed In' (16th generation)
'Romantic Evening' (15th generation)	seedling 88-215: (14th generation)	'Witches Wand' (13th generation)	'Tomorrow's Child' (12th generation)
'Lisa Ann' (11th generation)	'Snow Peach' (10th generation)	'Latin Lover' (9th generation)	No named Seedling (8th generation)
'Whole Cloth' (7th generation)	'Cahokia' (6th generation)	Faught seedling# 4E1 (5th generation)	'Purissima' (3rd generation)
'Argentina' (2nd generation)	Iris mesopotamica (1st generation)

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'Bottle Rocket the 2019 Dykes Medal Winner

'Bottle Rocket'	Seedling# S-702-A:	'Connie Sue'	Seedling# G-19
'sweet Musette'	Seedling# M 797-1:	'Sandberry'	'Kingdom'
seedling# 57-28	'Waxing Moon'	Fay seedling#	'sunray'
'Floradora'	'Clara Noyes'

'Bottle Rocket' is at least 14 generations from species and likely about 17 generations but no data after 'Clara Noyes' note last pod parent recorded was 'Aprodite' from 1922

'Haunted Heart' the 2018 Dykes Medal Winner

'Haunted Heart'	Blyth seedling# N48-X	'Royal sterling'	'Vienna Waltz'
'Social Event'	Gatty seedling# M8-2A	'Pretty Lady'	'Bonbon'
'Princess'	'Ruffled Valentine'	'May Hall'	'Dolly Varden'
'Courtier'

'Montmartre' 2017 Dykes Medal Winner Ancestry

'Montmartre'	'High Masrer'	'Fancy Woman'	seedling# 85-15C
'Goddess'	Seedling# 72-30C:	'Apricot Blaze'

See also SDBs

PCNs

-- BobPries - 12 Feb 2019