Re: Sidebar on REB: genetics/environment
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Sidebar on REB: genetics/environment
  • From: c* f* <f*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 07:12:31 -0700 (PDT)
Can someone send me a link or location for the FB thing y'all keep
mentioning.  I did a search on Facebook but search engines don't think the
same way I do, apparently.

Christian



________________________________
From: Betty Wilkerson <autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Saturday,
July 23, 2011 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] REB: genetics/environment

Linda,
genetically speaking, this one is definitely a keeper.  Did you get seed from
it this spring?

<<It's not that great a bloom, but has some keeper traits,
esp this one.>>

As to the variations between the pot and the garden?  There
are still some triggers or individual rhizome differences that we don't fully
understand?

Betty W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann
<lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 5:55 am
Subject: [iris] REB: genetics/environment


Seedling blooming today - ((IMM x
CSONG) x TWILIGHT FANCIES)) X MATRIX.
No question that the 'summer' bloom
genes 'should' be there, but
thought I'd share the plant behavior.

Maiden
bloom was last fall, late (because we never had fall, went
straight from hot
summer to winter), dug the fan and brought it indoors
to bloom, but it had
been frozen a few times before I dug it and the
stalk aborted.  The pot went
back outdoors during winter (i.e., vernalized).

The rest of the clump that
was left in the field bloomed this spring,
about EM.  It now has another
stalk, miserably stressed by heat and
drought.  No supplemental water (too far
for the hose to reach).

The increase in the pot from the fan dug last fall
did <not> bloom this
spring.  It is being fed and watered heavily with cold
spring water, has
not put on more increase (still just two fans), is lush and
luxuriant,
picture of health, no sign of bloom. yet?

I don't know what to
make of this.  The only thing I can think of is
that 6 (or whenever the bloom
stalk was triggered) weeks ago, the plant
in the field maybe stayed just
enough cooler than the one in the pot to
trigger bloom?  The fans in the pot
are certainly older (=more mature?)
than the one in the field.

Betty, I
really like your new FB definition of rebloom.  In this case,
it's
blooming-more-often-than-anything-other-than-BELVI QUEEN.  It's not
that great
a bloom, but has some keeper traits, esp this one.

Linda Mann east TN USA
zone 7

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