{Disarmed} Re: tiny rhizomes

Hi Donald, Now that you have dug up your 'mini' and if you relocate it to another area of the garden it may decide it likes it there and really develop normally. If not it may be a gene break and maybe you have a new line of dwarf AB. Have you searched into its pedigree to see if some dwarf aril genes are at work? e.g. I. urmiensis, I. acutiloba, etc. and what are the 'TB' genes? Are they really tall? 
 
Francesca
 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:00 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] tiny rhizomes

We're having a cool spell - at least 93F feels cools compared to what we
been having. So I've been moving some things. This OGB- type AB is one.
This plant has been an anomaly and I'm curious. When it is growing, the
foliage is 4" max. Usually a seedling that stays so small is simply one
that isn't going to grow and I thought for a time that was the case. Those,
though, never put on increase and this one did. It actually makes a tiny
clump of fans. For perspective I put the watch on the salad plate which is
6 1/2" in diameter. I've been growing this since spring of 2002 and it's
never bloomed, but it has survived and every spring it has put on increase.
I figured it probably fried this year, but when I dug it up it shows to be
only dormant. I'm not interested in small irises particularly, but I'm
curious about this fellow. After all, it's 3/4 TB so why in the world is it
this tiny? It may never bloom. This is the first move since it came out of
the pot. I guess I'll keep growing it until it either blooms or expires.
It sure doesn't take up much room. Like everything else here, it did suffer
this summer and I tossed a few dried up rhizomes that were between the two
clumps left in the photo. Still, there are nine rhizomes that are alive
with the largest barely 1/4" across. I just can't figure why such a cross
would produce this. It had a couple of siblings which were more normal for
the type of cross, but didn't survive the first year. This one, that has a
lot of aril characteristics in the rhizomes, just keeps surviving. Maybe
the move will finish it off.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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