Re: Bloom 2nd Stalk
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- Subject: Re: Bloom 2nd Stalk
- From: P* &* Y* T* <t*@dynamite.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 04:06:44 -0600 (MDT)
>Oh, Dennis... it doesn't DIE, but it's not worth keeping. Each rhizome has
>only one bloom in it - after that, you may get increase... but no more bloom.
>This is something that is not well known, especially among newer iris growers
>(hell, I didn't know this myownself for years!), so every year we get some
>'dead soldiers' at our sale.... rhizomes with a bloomstalk scar. But that's
>our OWN fault, for not getting the message across.
Kathy,
Are you saying that the increase will never flower? Thats how it sounds
from the paragraph above. If the rhizome multiplies then those daughter
rhizomes will flower from the next year onwards won't they? I'm 99%
certain mine have!!
Paul Tyerman
(Canberra Australia............ 2 hours north of here had flash flooding
last night, they had double their April average rainfall in 24 hours.....
250mm...... I'm startingg to think that our measly 13mm was probably a
better deal)
