Re: rebloom
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- Subject: Re: rebloom
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:37:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Gerry Snyder wrote:
> From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>
>
> Mike Lowe wrote:
> >
> > ....Now, why is rebloom-induced over bud set bad?
> >
> > 1. The plant is unable to devote sufficient resources to open all buds.
>
> > [Reasons 2-5 clipped.]
>
> These seem to be items that _usually_ accompany "excessive" bloom count.
> Maybe all iris that have been bred up til now with high rebloom bud count
> have those weaknesses, but not necessarily in the future.
>
> They are faults no competent judge could miss. Why do the automatic downgrading
> for bud count?
>
> What now seems undesirably high bud count may be standard in years to come,
> if the associated failings can be removed.
>
>
> Gerry
> --
Earlier this thread about bud overproductivity was referred to as
'brussels sprouting.' I have seen 'brussels sprouting' so rarely in my
garden that I find it not to be an exciteable condition. For me, it
occurred on G. Percy Brown varieties and was prompted by weather
conditions, both heat and cold.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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