Re: RE:CULT:Freeze Damage

 I have already talked to Donald about freeze damage.   We have had it in Dallas also.
My SDBs and IBs looked pretty good.   My ABs are late, but the TBs are showing up with
the usual number of stalks and they are mostly strange - - usual height, no branching, and about three buds per stalk.   I have normal looking stalks in only one bed.   It is in an
L shaped recess of the house protected from the north and west.   Some of my ABs will not bloom at all and only one of my MTBs is going to bloom.   The only AB in bloom now is a two year clump of Omar's Eye which has 22 bloom stalks in full bloom.   What a surprise!
Several clubs in this area canceled their shows.     
                                              Pat in Dallas
  
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Eaves
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 8:47 PM
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE:CULT:Freeze Damage was Cult-moving
  

>2.  Most damage done to newest beds
>3.  In the newest beds the most damage was incurred by the iris planted
>EARLIEST in the year, the later plantings took almost no damage

These were true for me generally.  #3 especially followed this.  The section
I was late finishing and planted after nights were already dropping to
freezing came through the freeze looking good - as plants.  The fan that
would have been the bloom fan will not do anything this year for the most
part.  Whether that would have happened with or without the freeze I can't
tell.  A high percentage of new acquisitions fail to grow the primary fan
anytime.  Never have been able to figure out why.

>4.  AB's took a hit.

They did, but I'm having enough bloom to wonder if it is any worse than the
others.

I'm seeing a lot of attempt to go ahead and bloom and am seeing some odd
things.  Mainly a lack of branching and side buds, but also some normal
height bloom stalks without any buds in the spathes.  On some established
clumps the stalks range from normal height to down in the fan and heights
all in between.  On the same clump.  There was a noticeable lack of pollen
on the early blooms, but I'm seeing it on many of those blooming this week.
Foliage is still abnormal on may, but some have finally began to grow out of
it.  I suspect nothing really escaped some effect from the freeze.  As Dana
said, it was very cold for us at anytime of year and it followed a few mild
weeks.  Plants that weren't responding to the mild temps probably were
ailing in some way anyway.

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



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