Re: CULT: rebloom: Tenting tonight

Thanks, Mike -- I think the most difficult part is yet to come, as the stalk lengthens and the freezing nights become freezing days, as well. I was able to expose it to light for about an hour this morning before the snow began to fall. I'd prefer to let it have both the light and the moisture, but the temperature is hovering too close to the freezing mark for my comfort, so I've re-covered it. Light snow continuing and not melting. About an inch on the ground so far. Hopefully, we'll have a snowy winter that will build up some of our depleted water tables. -- Griff 

Zone 7 along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, in Virginia
----- Original Message ----- From: "sutton's iris gardens" <info@suttoniris.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: rebloom: Tenting tonight
Good luck with that Griff....hope it doesn't get too cold for you. We are done, too many nights in a row below 30F, even tenting and bucketing doesn't work at this point. Sounds like you saved the one, hope it is a nice flower. 
Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: [iris] CULT: rebloom: Tenting tonight
064G1, which experienced its first freeze while a bud just emerging from the base of the fan, and which has been "tented" since then, has now withstood 
several freezing nights and is 19 1/2 inches tall.  The tomato stakes
supporting the covering have been replaced with a tomato cage, and a 3d
Christmas tree bulb has been added.  So far, so good.  Ferocious winds
yesterday and today ripped off a large grocery sack intended to provide extra heat retention, so it's been replaced by a second old work shirt. So far, so 
good.  The crew that came today to take down the maple tree that wasn't
shading the house but was shading the iris beds found the plant with its own 
parka and an electric cord running to it quite intriguing.  --  Griff

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