Iris digest V1 # 1365
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  • Subject: Iris digest V1 # 1365
  • From: E* B* <b*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:57:44 -0800 (PST)
I agree with Chuck Chapman. There is a finite amount of energy available to an
iris plant. It seems each plant will distribute that available energy in it's
own way. A good example of this is the popular iris put out by some of our
most popular hybridizers that have small rhizomes, small, short stems, small
leaves and big beautiful blooms with lots of frills and/or lace. Here in
Alabama most of those iris will almost disappear in the Winter and the
rhizomes will break into many pieces. In late Fall to Spring when you look at
them it looks as if you have a bunch of seedlings, about three inches
high, growing in the place of a clump. They do not grow well here so they are
being eliminated. I have seveal iris from several of those same hybridizers
that have big rhizomes, big, tall stems, tall wide leaves and normal size
blooms for Spring. They do well.
 
There is a question I want to ask no matter
how stupid it sounds. How do you count buds on an iris? If I have an iris stem
that has three triple sockets that produce three flowers each, is that nine
buds? I have not usually been able to obtain the number of buds, either way,
that the catalogs say an iris produces. Perhaps if I count them correctly, I
can get the correct count.

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