Re: HYB: Seed germination in the ground
- Subject: Re: HYB: Seed germination in the ground
- From: p*
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:45:28 -0000
Thanks, Linda.
"Usually" and "should" are getting to be rare here as well. This
year, there were only two days of sun all November, the rain
providing for them what I tried to indoors first. But this is the
first week of sun, and it snowed at the end of March. Nothing to do
with the ozone layer or global warming, I'm sure. Nahhh.
Worse yet, I think the one sprout I had was not an iris. I lifted it
today to plant it next to its mother and there was a bulb attached to
its roots, with a long white tap root! The leaves look more like
daylily leaves than the sharply pointed iris leaves. Batting 000.
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'm not busily ordering my next
batch, from careful planning of crosses.
Patricia
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> Patricia Brooks asked:
> <Did Mr. Parkhill dry the seeds first and/or chill and soak them
before
> planting them in the ground? As I recall, you do both. >
>
> He probably allows the pods to mature until they split, then dries
the
> seed until late November, when the weather 'usually' is cold for the
> winter (usually doesn't seem to happen anymore). After hard freezes
> have killed tender vegetation. This is how most folks in this area
> plant them - I will check with him to make sure.
>
> This is the first year I have soaked & chilled seeds. At the rate
they
> are germinating (mostly not!) & damping off, I will probably go
back to
> planting in flats/pots this year. & will just make sure to flood
them
> with water every day the garden hose isn't frozen, carry water from
the
> creek when the hose, but not the ground, is frozen, and provide some
> kind of light shade for later in the germination season to make
sure the
> seed pots don't ever dry out.
>
> Once again, wild swings in week to week temperature and rainfall
while
> seeds "should" be germinating seem to be causing problems here.
Yours
> should do fine planted outdoors.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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