Re: HYB:TB:Ruffles and Renown
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  • Subject: Re: HYB:TB:Ruffles and Renown
  • From: C* C* <i*@aim.com>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:17:27 -0500 (EST)
When replying to group need to hit "reply all" else it goes only to sender. 

What did you cross Renown to that resulted in no rebloomers?

Chuck Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Wilkerson <autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 11:45 am
Subject: [iris] HYB:TB:Ruffles and Renown

Don't know exactly what happened.  I hit reply to Linda's earlier post
and thought it had gone to iris talk/list, but investigation shows it
went straight to Linda.  AOL has been driving me nuts lately.  This is
just the last example.  Original message below.
____

My 2 cents:

I think huge, wide, tall fans are nice anyway.  It seems logical that
they would offer better support to an iris.  To refer back to my spring
posts--why don't 'Renown' children rebloom like crazy here?  With only
a couple of exceptions, they all have the largest and best formed fans
in the garden.   Unfortunately, they tend to be prone to leaf spot in
the summer.  At this point, NONE have rebloomed, but even the
grandchildren have the neat looking fans.  I expect the rebloom to
return in future generations.

<<<<So we need <huge>, wide, tall individual leaf blades?>>

Basically, I grow irises for my own enjoyment.  I like to share with
others, but that is not always possible.  In my garden, rebloomers are
garden irises and maybe they shouldn't be expected to meet show bench
standards.  When we breed for the show bench, we strive for multiple
open blooms.  Slow sequential blooms are a bigger value in my garden
than total number of buds!  Staggered stalks, over several days or a
couple of weeks, increase my enjoyment.  As stated many times, in many
different ways--performance varies depending on many things.

In my breeding program, I've tried to keep an eye open for the show
bench, but maybe this is a mistake?



Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KYautmirislvr@aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 5:36 am
Subject: [iris] HYB: REB:  lots of big ruffled blooms (from FB
discussion)

Interesting discussion over on FB about form that I thought I'd share
here (so folks can look it up in the archives if/when it comes up).

Chuck Chapman posted this over in iris lovers, repeated here
(edited/shortened): <There is a limited amount of "Floral Mass" (Law
of)
that a rhizome can produce - more flowers you have on a stalk, the
smaller and more tailored they will be. larger, more ruffles etc the
smaller. >

So, dag nab it, that also contributes to it being hard to have lots of
large ruffled flowers on rebloomers.

Fewer leaves/fan may mean more rapid production of stalks/ frequent
blooms, but less photosynthetic surface to support lots of big, ruffled
blooms. :-(


Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7
where "kate": ((Imm x Csong) x TWILIGHT FANCIES) X MATRIX is finishing
up its 3rd stalk of the season with 12 buds.  Not much ruffling or
width, but blooms are normal/ large TB size.  5 stalks in 12 months
(late fall, spring, summer, fall, late fall)

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Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com

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