Re: Fw: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
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  • Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
  • From: &* t* <t*@cs.com>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:57:21 +0100
yes it is pod fertile, but the seed count is quite low:

      many manalos B057A=pele x what a 7
      many manalos B196D=candy walk x cim rose 15
      many mahalos beat! beat! drums! 27
      many manalos blazing sunrise 16
      many manalos bright eyes 24
      many manalos cordoba 1
      many manalos emma doodle 6
      many manalos eternal bliss 10
      many manalos midsummer's eve 19
      many manalos volt 10

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: thomas silvers
  To: iris-talk
  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:39 PM
  Subject: [iris] Fw: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?


  Oops, sorry, I sent to Iris-Photos instead of Iris-Talk.
  Here's what I'd sent below, and thanks to Colleen also for the tip on
'Double Shot'. Also, I see now where 'Many Mahalos' is registered as an IB. Is
it pod fertile for you Loic?
  Thanks for your suggestions, Tom

  --- On Tue, 12/8/09, thomas silvers <tesilvers@yahoo.com> wrote:


  > Subject: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
  > To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
  > Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 1:53 PM
  > Thanks for the suggestions Loic and
  > Linda.
  >
  > Less than 10% of "supposed to rebloom" do for you!!??!!
  > Can't say that I'm happy to hear that Loic - it's a sad
  > disppointment -
  > but I am glad to know that it might not just be my
  > neglectful
  > growing conditions to blame for my sad history of rebloom.
  > I've seen the pictures of your gardens and they look
  > beautiful and well-cared for.
  >
  > I'm glad that you mentioned 'Claire Doodle' and 'Many
  > Mahalos' because
  > I hadn't been thinking of tetraploid MTB's.
  >
  > Linda, I guess I'm going to have to consider giving
  > 'Immortality'
  > another try. It only bloomed either Spring or Fall but
  > never both
  > for me, while I had it. 'Harvest of Memeories' sounds like
  > a winner
  > too. Have you ever tried some of the TB's from Loic's list
  > (like 'Northward Ho', 'Over and Over', 'Lake Reprise' or
  > 'Cantina')
  > there in the "vale"?
  >
  > My sister lived about a half hour away from me at the time
  > and was
  > making new flowerbeds and didn't really have much to put in
  > them.
  > So seeing a perfect opportunity present itself... I'd buy a
  > bunch
  > of reputed rebloomers and she'd grow them to see if they'd
  > do well.
  > Like I said, she took much better care of things than I
  > typically
  > do, so she had a quite a few that seemed to grow alright,
  > but still
  > not much rebloom. She nows lives about a half an hour away
  > but in a
  > different area, and has mature trees (woodland) blocking
  > almost all
  > direct sun, so the bearded irises are really not doing too
  > well for
  > her.
  > I think I am succeeding in converting her from a bearded
  > only kind
  > of gal - she's starting to appreciate the crested roof
  > irises (tectorum)
  >  that I snuck into her shady flowerbeds one fall when she
  > was
  > recovering from a surgery.
  > Now if I can only get her to start daubing ;0)

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