Re: Re: Cult: seedling metamorphosis
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Cult: seedling metamorphosis
- From: J* H*
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:27:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeanne Holley <irisarian@yahoo.com>
Donald and Linda,
I only have a few seedlings at this time, but I
submitted a name for one at the same time I submitted
the name for Twilight's Last Gleaming. The following
year (third year of growth) the second seedling sent
up a stalk with a branch that elongated itself beyond
acceptable levels.
Dave Niswonger warned me (and guess who didn't listen)
to wait at least until after the third year of bloom
to register seedlings, because sometimes (not always)
they change drastically. Now I have a name that I
will have to transfer to another seedling eventually,
if I have one that is worthy of a name.
Jeanne Holley
--- Donald Eaves <donald@eastland.net> wrote:
> Linda Mann asked re:
>
> >> Also this is a 1994 seedling, so it should have
> >> finished its metamorphosis
> >
> >Would some of you who have had experience with
> seedlings and the way
> >they 'metamorphose' talk about this some? It's
> been mentioned here, but
> >not discussed enough for me to know what it means.
> >
> I'll chime in here with Linda. The bee pod
> seedlings which haven't been
> tossed on the compost pile after their maiden bloom
> have shown no
> variation in growth, color, bloom quantity or time
> of bloom in the
> subsequent
> seasons. There has actually been more variation in
> purchased rhizomes.
>
> Donald Eaves
> donald@eastland.net
> Texas Zone 7
>
> >Are all seedlings different their first year of
> bloom? What's
> >different? How does it change (abruptly the next
> year or gradually over
> >several years)? Do some charactersitics take
> longer to change than
> >others? Are the changes only related to plant
> habit or do they apply to
> >bloom color and pattern as well?
> >
> >And anything else you can think of.
> >
> >Such as, does anybody know or care to speculate
> about <why> these
> >changes happen (re: plant morphology/physiology)?
> >
> >Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
> >
>
>
>
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