Re: SHOW: Questions about rules
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SHOW: Questions about rules
- From: C* M*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:18:45 +1030
Hi Dana
I agree that an iris should produce a minimum of 3-5 increases a year, but I
see nothing wrong with the ones that produce 8. I would consider counting
about a month or two before bloom, so any old fans had dies off and any
incease were clearly grown to full size fan. This works fine until you get
to rebloomers, especially multiples, which produce increase all year round
and could bloomout if they only produced 3-5 increases a year.
Mike how do you count increase on rebloomers. Do you put one piece in just
after main bloom and count the increase just before the next main bloom
period? or leave it two years and work it out over 2 years
Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia
Zone8/9
irises@senet.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
To: Iris Talk <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:18 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] SHOW: Questions about rules
> Several of us have been discussing the judges handbook and one of the
things
> that came up is the statement on pg 56 that: "A tall bearded iris variety
> should produce between 3 and 5 increases per rhizome per year." The
> questions raised were:
> 1. At what time of the year do you count increase to determine whether or
> not an iris has met this criteria.
> 2. Do you count fans that produced a bloomstalk? For instance, if you
have
> a 2 year old clump with 10 fans and 3 of them have bloomstalks. Do you
> assume that the 3 with bloomstalks were last years fans (because you
planted
> one and got the minimum 3 increase the first year) and the remaining 7 are
> increase for the second year? That would mean that 3 bloomstalks X 3
> (minimum increase) should be 9 increase and this fan only had 7 making it
> below acceptable. Or, do you figure a two year old clump should have 9-25
> increase and this clump has a total of 10 fans making it within the
minimum
> parameter?
> Dana Brown
> Malevil Gardens
> Pres. South Plains Iris Society
> AIS Region 17, MIS, ASI, RIS, TBIS
> Lubbock, TX USA
> Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
> d*@llano.net
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