Re: Re: HYB:CULT:water and seedlings

Oh Linda, thanks for the tip!
Indoor opening might do the trick of course!
Just pick the bud before it opens, and put it inside in a bit of water.
I might get a better success rate in my pollinisations. ( still, with 620 ripe pods this year, i think i managed quite well, but i'm glad i did NOT count the failed attemps, it would be too discouraging! I've spent days on my knees this spring!)
I leave the leaf spot problem not to be a problem. I just accept that at certain times the whole plot look all brown, as part of the lanscape, like the virginia creeper gets red in the autumn, or my blushing when i tell a silly joke. 
Battles you can't win aren't worth the effort!
At the end of the day, or i should say at the beginning of the winter, the problem is solved anyway since almost all vegetation disapears! 

Frost has not hit yet, Concoction is having another go.
The shape is not fabulous, but it's proving to be the best rebloomer here!
Will definitely use it next spring.
Have you ever had any results with it?
Maybe Betty has, hope she reads this, hello Betty!

I agree with her about the ones we loose.
The losses are not overall the beds, they are specific to some crosses, so we're better off without them anyway. 
If they die, let it be.

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Loic TASQUIER     zone 6 - Nederland
Email : tasquierloic@cs.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com> 
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB:CULT:water and seedlings



I enjoy all the different perspectives too.
And am very interested to hear your successes and failures in your rain and dew soaked garden, Loic. It sounds similar to here. I am curious - how do you manage to get dry pollen with so much humidity? For the really stubborn ones, I had great success last year growing them in pots and bringing the pots indoors (dehumidified air) when buds were about to open. 

Also, do you try to treat for diseases (leaf spots) from all the dampness?
We had record high temperature here yesterday, now back to freezing. Irises don't like that either!
For the ones i replanted directly in their definitive beds, made of 99% of clay no matter what i add to it, they had a harder time with 3 weeks of solid rain in August combined with the dew. But the losses were among specific crosses, it was not an overall loss. So i think only the unfit disapeared. It saves a lot of heartbreaking decisions when you have to decide between the ones that can stay and the ones that deserve a quick reincarnation on the compost heap. At least, a lot of the latter have already gone! 

Thanks to you all for your mails, the wet ones as well as the dry ones
It's great to see our world from so many differntpoints of view, without even leaving our own single little plots of earth in which we have deep long roots. 

Loic



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