Re: CULT - Timing?
- Subject: Re: CULT - Timing?
- From: p*
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:30:53 -0000
Folks,
I plan to go one step further this year and lift fully blooming
irises to sell at the local Farmers Market and to people visiting the
garden while the irises are in bloom. That's how I plan to make more
room for cvs more key to my hyb projects.
I'd never have thought that was possible, but Darlene at Snowpeak
told me she did it with no ill aftereffects. Which makes some sense
to me, in fact: traumatizing a plant right before bloom would be
disastrous. But once it's done its thing, it's ready for the next
thing. And Darlene says she can sell a blooming iris far better than
representing it with a picture. So I plan to lift the rhizome
carefully, soil and all, and lower it into a plastic bag, and tell
the buyer to lower it as carefully into the prepared soil, same mix,
at the same level.
I'll report how it goes.
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA, zone 8
--- In iris-talk@y..., oneofcultivars@a... wrote:
> I certainly concur that Sept and Oct are better months to move iris
here. I
> thing dry conditions at that time allow healing of wounds from
dividing
> clumps and light conditions at the time appear to be triggering
plant growth.
> I often suffer from misinformation supplied by others and do not
want to be
> the source of same. Too, my response was intended to address "can
be moved"
> as opposed to "best time to move". Too, there appears to be a
difference in
> moving an entire plant with dirt as opposed to divided and cleaned
individual
> rhizomes. So far, and my experience is limited, iris have been a
forgiving
> plant in terms of when, where or how I plant them (contrary to
conventional
> wisdom).The apartment writers you mention are a problem for me too.
Some
> recent literature from the county agents office recommends dividing
> immediately after bloom. I've not done this yet but expect to test
some this
> year. Often feel like I must reinvent the wheel if I want to go
further down
> the road.
>
> Walter, kindly share your thoughts on dividing immediately after
bloom.
>
> Bill Burleson 7a/7b
> He who believes all that he reads should neither believe nor read.-
I. Tink
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