Re: HYB: Bloomout (wasTB: Ruffles on stigmatic lip)

Tom, I'd wondered if this would help.? It's something I've not?tried.? Keep us posted as to the result.? There's hope until the rhizomes rot.? 


I cut two of these bloomstalks
back, hoping to stimulate some increases to form. 

Betty W/KY/zone 6


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From: thomas silvers <tesilvers@yahoo.com>
To: iris-talk <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 7:27 am
Subject: [iris] HYB: Bloomout (wasTB: Ruffles on stigmatic lip)



Francelle wrote:
"and as is my luck when I get a really gorgeous
seedling, I will probably lose it to bloom out.  I
have been told that if you can set a pod on a stalk
that is blooming out, that will stimulate it into
multiplying. I will try anything to try to save this
one."

Hello Francelle,
Last summer, I had a first bloom tectorum X bearded
seedling that "bloomed out". Of course it was the
seedling that I had most interest in! Even though
these are typically sterile, I did manage to get a
single seed from one of the blooms. I'm not getting my
hopes up too much about that, but what does give me
hope... is that there are still three firm pieces of
rhizome showing at the soil surface. There hasn't been
any green on them at all since the bloomstalks and
their fans died back. There had been three fans with
three bloomstalks. I cut two of these bloomstalks
back, hoping to stimulate some increases to form. That
doesn't seem to have made any difference, because even
the fan that I left alone still has a firm rhizome. 
I guess my point is... that it might not make any
difference in the end, but my seedling is not yet dead
[just no green] and if your seedling's good enough, it
wouldn't hurt to mark the spot and wait to see if it
might someday get the urge to grow again. That's what
I'm doing.
Good luck, Tom


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