Re: CULT: Bloom-out was HYB: Hardiness
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Bloom-out was HYB: Hardiness
- From: M* M*
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:40:05 -0500
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
THANK YOU, Jim. It seems that only the really neat and different ones seem
to sit and languish. Red on yellow plicatas seem to do this and I've given
up on OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. I love it when it blooms (great show stalks) but
it has only bloomed twice in the five or more years that I've had it. It
seems to put out one increase only when it wants to, then it takes at least
a year or to grow to a size when it would bloom.
I'll try your method on some of the newer ones that I haven't given up on
yet.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
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> From: IRISROT@aol.com[SMTP:IRISROT@aol.com]
> Reply To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 8:50 PM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: Hardiness
>
> Does anyone have iris that just sit there and never increase? I have a few
> of these and believe it or not "Before The Storm" does this for me. I have
> two clumps and still not getting that much increase. Now a lesson for all
> you rookies....do you know how to get increase off a plant? Try
> this...take a very sharp knife and put a couple of nicks in each side of
> the rhizome. Just small v's not much but you should get an increase in at
> least two of these. Also do this on an iris you are about to lose due to
> blooming out. Soon as you see the single rhizome is putting up a
> bloomstalk cut the nicks in the rhizome. Sometimes it will work sometimes
> not but it's worth the effort. Tip for the day.
>
> Jim Loveland, Fenton, MO
>
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