Re: CULT: Rhizomes completing one bloom cycle?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Rhizomes completing one bloom cycle?
- From: J* C*
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:39:34 -0600
Laurie,
I am a member of the DIS. Of the little one's you loose it because of the
frost and it will not bloom again. There are only about 10 MDB'S that
rebloom.
Can you send me a list of the MDB'S in your garden for the Data Bank. My
address is in the DIS Newsletter.
Jim Clark in Edwards, Mo zone 5
Conservator of the Dwarf Iris Society
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie Frazer <lfandjg@yahoo.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: Rhizomes completing one bloom cycle?
>Hello iris-talkers,
>
>I've been lurking and learning here for about a year,
>but this is my first post. Many of my newbie
>questions have already been answered, but there are a
>few that have not yet been addressed in the daily
>iris-talk communications. I only started gardening
>about 5 yrs ago, and I only became seriously
>interested in cultivating irises a couple of years
>ago, though I always had some ancient irises
>struggling to survive around the original homestead
>before we knocked it down in 1996. I've acquired many
>new irises over the last 2 yrs, most of which are
>different classifications of beardeds (mostly TBs). I
>also have several species irises, a few ABs, and a
>dozen or so Sibs. Many of the beardeds I added last
>year are rebloomers, though I realize I'll be lucky if
>any can rebloom in my zone 3b northern MN climate. I
>have joined the AIS, RIS, DIS, and HIPS. But enough
>about me. Here is my first newbie question:
>
>I understand that once a rhiz blooms, it will not
>bloom again. But what happens if a rhiz starts to
>send up a stalk in the fall that gets zapped by frost
>before it blooms? Will that same rhiz send up another
>stalk the next year (or some other year), or will it
>turn its energy exclusively to the production of
>increases, never having successfully completed a bloom
>cycle? Is the rhiz's likelihood of attempting a
>second time to bloom dependent on the maturity of the
>first stalk at the time it was frozen out (will a rhiz
>be more likely to attempt a second bloom if the first
>bloom attempt never got past the "pregnant fan"
>stage)?
>
>I can't tell you how much I appreciate all I have
>learned from you good folks already, and I can't wait
>to soak up even more!
>
>Happy irising,
>
>Laurie
>
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>lfandjg@yahoo.com
>zone 3b - northern MN
>amended clay soil
>
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