Re: CULT: hot nights
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- Subject: Re: CULT: hot nights
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:15:53 -0600 (MDT)
>Lloyd Zurbrigg wrote:
>>Members of iris-L should be told that I pumila and its
>>derivatives do not like hot climates. If anyone can tell me how to grow
>>it like you grow it, (SUSLIK), I would be ever so grateful.
>
>I am going to experiment with 'tricking' fall rebloomers into blooming
>earlier by freezing cola bottles full of water, then lying them around
>the rhizomes summer evenings to cool off soil and rhizomes. Maybe
>pumila genes would like this too?
>
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
Thanks Linda, I will try it too. At least I have managed to keep several
clones of pumilas alive. About three dozen talls out here now. A tornado
watch the other night; some places got "tons" of hail. We were lucky here.
Lloyd Z in Durham NC
