Re: HYB: 1st Year Bloom

Mike,

> I would like to know what others consider is " 1st Year Bloom"
>
> My thoughts.
>
> Seed planted in the fall  and germinate the next spring. Then bloom the
next
> spring.  This is first year bloom as I see it.

I'd tend to agree that would be 1st year bloom, but I think anything earlier
might also be categorized that way since the bloom would have occurred in
the first year.

I tend to avoid it by calling a seedlings first bloom "Maiden bloom".  That
would be the bloomstalk on the seedling rhizome, not increases.  I often
miss that when it is killed by late freezes.  So I've never been clear about
the first time I've seen a seedling bloom for the first time, but on
increase of the seedling plant.  Or if it still might change the next season
as maiden bloom has been described as doing.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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