Re: SHOW: Questions about rules
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SHOW: Questions about rules
- From: C* M*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:35:36 +1030
Dana
As a commercial grower, I like all the increase I can get.
As for home gardeners, the faster they increase the more you can share with
friends.
I know rebloomers have to increase faster to keep up with the rebloom. My
stuff came out of qauarantine with masses of increase, which 2-3 months
later is all flowering yet again. I was getting worried about bloom out, but
there are small babies coming on them all. Concertina even bloomed on the
bits I broke up. A number of my imported non rebloomers are reblooming. I
think the shock of importing to opposite seasons has triggered any latent
reblooming tendancy. So I have rebloom coming on Barbara's Lace, Momentous
Occasion, Moonraker, Feu De Ceil and Twice Thrilling, so I would use all
these in a reblooming breeding programme.
Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia
Zone8/9
irises@senet.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: RE: [iris-talk] SHOW: Questions about rules
> Colleen,
> My only problem with an iris that puts up 8 increase is that at the end of
> 3 years that is 512 rhizomes. 8 the first year, each of those 8 make 8
more
> the second year = 64 and each of those makes 8 the third year = 512. Now
> personally I would hate to dig a clump that size.<G>
> If an iris produced three increase the first year and bloomed on one of
> them, then rebloomed on another increase wouldn't those two still produce
> next years increase? At least that is what happened for us on two clumps
of
> Forever Yours last year. At the time of rebloom we had bloom stalks on 9
> out of the 10 increase. I was seriously worried about bloomout. The one
> fan without a rebloom stalk on it was small and I hated to think that the
> future of those clumps rested solely on that single rhizome. We counted
> today and there are 15 increase from one of the rhizomes and 18 increase
> from the other. So on 2-two year old clumps we had an average of 4
increase
> each, even with frighteningly heavy rebloom the fall before.
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colleen Modra [i*@senet.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:49 PM
> To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SHOW: Questions about rules
>
> 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
>
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> > 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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