Re: rebloom

From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>

Hi Walter,
Don't worry it has to go through the whole process of several years of
bloom, reselecting, trials and all that sort of stuff.  But for the moment
it is just unbelievable!  Like I said we will have to see how it looks in
spring.  Last year we had a beautiful reblooming plicata show it's face for
the first time in fall.  It was a huge reverse yellow amoena plicata.  When
spring came around it was tiny and dull.  We reselected it just to see how
the next few years go but based on the spring bloom it's headed for the
compost heap.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter A. Moores <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:35 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: rebloom


>From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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> Mike, I share your enthusiasm, but I think a word or two of
>caution might be in order.  In the following I don't intend to throw water
>on your iris fire.
>
> Over the years I have seen maiden bloom that really excited me
>only to be disappointed with later bloom.  And, I have also seen the
>reverse, as surely you may have.
>
> With maiden bloom in several seedlings of mine, it seemed the
>plant put all of its gusto in that first bloom.  Since your seedling did
>not bloom in the spring, that bud (now in bloom) may have been in the
>formation stages for a long time, giving the flower the fantastic form you
>are viewing.  Most often this happens in the fall on rebloom when colder
>nights hold back a bud.  When it finally blooms, it is huge, overlapping,
>but is atypical on subsequent bloom when conditions are right.
>
> A case in point is the seedling 91-14-ARE on my web site.  That
>picture was taken on maiden bloom in the fall, and the bloom has never
>been so gorgeous since.  If you saw 91-14-ARE in bloom in the spring, you
>would never say that what you are seeing is the same iris I have on the
>web page.  The color and the form are not the same.  I was overwhelmed
>with that iris when it bloomed in the fall and thought I have the
>rebloomer everyone is looking for and it will make me famous! As it turned
>out, 91-14-ARE is an extremely slow grower and will probably never be
>introduced.  As you can tell, the cross was made in 1991.  Normally, by
>this time I should have enough of this iris to introduce, but I have only
>about seven rhizomes.
>
> I have had other 'good' seedlings perform the same way....a blue
>with white veins throughout.  It was a knockout the first summer it
>bloomed, but the bloom has not impressed me since.  Also, this 'rayed'
>seedling gave maiden bloom in the summer of 1994, but it has never bloomed
>in the summer since.
>
> I am keeping my fingers crossed for your seedling and am hoping it
>will increase for you and bloom again and again.  But, a word of
>caution...
>
>
> Good luck!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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