Re: REB:Question

In a message dated 1/27/2001 6:24:08 PM Central Standard Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<<  I am not sure which rhizome we are talking about here - the imported one? 
>>

Not imported ones.  These don't confuse me--A rhizome sets a bloom stalk in 
California and then is shipped to Kentucky where it blooms in my bed.  This 
is California rebloom, not Kentucky rebloom.  I do not and would not report 
this as Kentucky rebloom. But that doesn't mean it's not a rebloomer!

<<<<<<<If it has been in your garden for 
over one growing season and rebloomed in the fall, I might call it a 
sporadic rebloomer.>>>>>

Thanks, Walter. I think, this is what is causing the confusion.  Most of the 
fall stalks being reported appear to be sporadic rebloomers.  Unstable little 
fellas. 

I was not referring to any particular iris so much as situations.  Our club 
maintains a public garden.  Here is a "for instance."  I bought HONKY TONK 
BLUES 
the year it was introduced.  As soon as I had anything to spare, it was 
planted in the public garden.  We have four beds and one or two are dug and 
reworked each year.  In 1999, HTB was replanted in a newly worked bed.  It 
and three others on one end of this new bed put up fall stalks in 2000.  I 
said (sorta) "Hot dog! HTB has rebloom blood!"  But my co-member says, "Don't 
you think it's just the weather 'or something'?"   

In an earlier instance, I planted MY VALENTINE, one of MY all time favorite 
irises in this same display bed.  It had a beautiful fall bloom stalk that 
same fall.  It had moved 15 miles.  Conversation was much the same as 
described above.  It would have set the rebloom stalk in my bed earlier in 
the summer, but it is still rebloom.  Or is it?  

Is rebloom based on genetics?   If they don't have the rebloom genetics, 
however unstable, can they still throw that delayed immature bloom stuff? 
I've seen so many spring blooming irises that you couldn't beg a fall stalk 
out of, if your life depended on it.  If the rhizomes aren't mature enough, 
they just don't bloom. Have you ever seen a swelling at the base of a fan and 
found only air when you pressed on it?  Aborted bloom stalk.  

I am one of these people that sees a fall stalk and yells, "Hurrah!  Pass me 
the tweezers!"  Yet, all of my seedlings that I've thought were rebloomers 
just seem to rebloom stronger with each year.  

Dr. Smith's definition in The World of Irises would rule out most of the 
rebloomers I've grown, including his own---in my area.  (One of my favoite 
people)  Even so, many of them react differently from year to year.  What is 
rebloom one year often isn't the next.  Oh, well . . . 

Betty, not so patiently waiting for spring, in Bowling Green KY USA Zone 6
Only those who dare to dream can make a dream come true.

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