Re: REB: What Qualifies for a Rebloom Report?



On 10 Jan 01, at 21:22, lfandjg@yahoo.com wrote:

> Which of the following would you include in an official RIS rebloom 
> report?
> 
> 1.  an iris purchased from a grower outside of your area, planted 
> during the summer into your garden, and blooming that same fall in 
> your garden (example: I purchased a number of rebloomers from CA last
> summer which then bloomed in my garden last fall.  Do I report those as MN
> rebloom?) NO
> 
> 2.  an iris purchased from a grower outside of your area, planted 
> during the summer into your garden, and blooming the *next* spring and
> fall in your garden  YES
> 
> 3.  an iris listed in the Reblooming Checklist as a rebloomer, but 
> which blooms in your garden *only* in the fall and *not* in the spring NO
> 
> 4.  a stalk which must be protected from fall frost in the garden in order
> to give it time to rebloom PROBABLY 
> 
> 5.  a stalk which must be cut and brought inside in bud stage to bloom
> indoors because of potentially fatal fall weather PROBABLY NOT.
> 
> 6.  a stalk which manages to open only one cold-damaged and deformed bloom
> before frost kills the rest of the stalk YES
> 
> If you can think of any other reblooming variables which I have 
> overlooked, please feel free to comment on them as well.  I am hoping to
> have some "legitimate" rebloom next year, but I won't know for sure until

A seedling giving maiden bloom in the fall.  NO (wouldn't be reported 
anyway, but give it another year to grow and don't call it a 
rebloomer until it performs several springs and falls in a row)

I'm not sure what the 'official' definition of a rebloomer is.  I 
think a rebloomer is any bloom that comes after initial spring bloom. 
There was a time when a rebloomer had to bloom the second half of the 
year (sometime after July 1) in order to be counted.  Who can verify 
this?

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/9
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