FW: CULT: Marking Culls

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-----Original Message-----
From: Francelle [mailto:fjmjedwards@qwest.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:36 PM
To: 'iris-photos@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [iris-photos] CULT: Marking Culls

 

That is my method exactly.  It’s so much easier to mark the keepers because there are so fewer of them.  I would like to give everything a chance to bloom twice, but I just don’t have the room.  With seedlings planted seven inches apart, I have to remove inferior ones to give growing room to those that look more promising. 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-photos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Autmirislvr@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:32 AM
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] CULT: Marking Culls

 

My new seedlings usually have a full bed to themselves. I find it
easier to mark, and then lift, the KEEPERS. Then I dig or destroy the
remainder. Takes a lot less marking materials. In one 4 X 50 foot bed
I will lift 8 clumps and the rest are gone.

I'm finding some good seedlings make their showing on the 2nd year of
bloom. Maiden bloom can be quite deceiving.

<<I used to hate throwing out seedlings.....>>.....