Re: CULT: Multiple Stalks
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Multiple Stalks
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:27:32 -0800
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
Winter rebloom stalks will often times produce what appears to be more than
one stalk per rhizome. Most of the time if you dig down deep enough you
find that it really is only one stalk that has branched out at the very base
of the stalk. We have had a few that send up stalks from the same rhizome
at about two weeks apart. IMHO to have a true multiple stalk per rhizome
plant, it seems that the stalks should develop and bloom at a different
time. HONEY SCOOP does this more than any flower we have. CELEBRATION SONG
has never done it for us and we have a lot of it lined out. Some of the
intros we got from Schreiner's last year are supposed to do this also, we
will see in spring.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
>
>Just to add my bit to the discussion. Schreiner's does sell a few
cultivars
>that they claim have multiple bloom stalks on the same rhizome. This
>feature counterbalances the fact that each bloom stalk has fewer buds than
>Schreiner's usually likes to see before introducing an iris. CELEBRATION
>SONG is the only one that I have that is supposed to do this. I have grown
>it for a few years now and it has never thrown up more than one bloom stalk
>per rhizome. I recall that MYSTIC MUSE is supposed to do this too.
Perhaps
>the multiple bloom stalks is a combination of genetics and
>cultivation/climate.
>
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