Re: setosa surprise :

Laurie Frazer <lauriefr@localnet.com> wrote:
 
>>> Holy moly, Ellen! If ever I've seen a reason NOT to snap off spent
bloomstalks, that's it! I wonder if any other type of iris, beardless
or bearded, does the same thing. Is that "our" setosa? <<<
 
 
Hi Laurie.
 
Yes, it is "our" setosa.  I sent you seeds from those bloomstalks
last week.
 
This is a wonderful Iris setosa plant that Laurie sent me two years
ago and I sent her a piece back to her this year since she, unfortunately,
lost hers. It is a pod fertile, tall ,hardy, blooming fool of a setosa.
 
I have never kept any stalks sitting in water (that long) after I took the ripe pods
off them. I do this to almost all of my bloomstalks and I will keep watch
of two bearded (IB) still in water but I did cut them down so they are not
whole stalks.
 
Next year I will keep the bloomstalks intact with the seed pods and see what
happens.
 
 
Ellen





Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com / Editor, The Siberian Iris
Berlin, New Hampshire - USDA Zone 3
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