Re: Forcing bearded irises for early bloom [2 Attachments]
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- From: "Dennis Kramb d*@badbear.com [iris-species]" <i*@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:29:56 -0500
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Instead of digging & disturbing the clump, could you build a temporary greenhouse around it? You can do a google image search to get ideas for different kinds of "mini greenhouse" or whatever. Here are some pics that came up for me. If you're lucky you could probably scrounge up the materials for free, rather than buying something. I don't know if they make clear garbage bags, but that would probably be ideal. The extra warmth should bring your target clump of irises into bloom much earlier... at least a few days... probably a few weeks. I guess it depends how soon you could construct it.On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, thomas silvers t*@yahoo.com [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Does anyone have experience with bringing bearded iris species indoors (Iris variegata in particular) to persuade them to bloom earlier? I'd like to use pollen (from the variegata clone I have) on some really early species and didn't think ahead to freeze any last season. |
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