Re: REB:Question about seedling rebloom

--- In iris-talk@y..., tesilvers@y... wrote:
> I have a diploid bearded species cross seedling which has only been
> in the ground one year. In April, it sent up a very early (for
> Maryland) bloom stalk; followed a few weeks later by two more stalks
> (during early-midseason). Now, it's doing another stalk -- and it's
> July 10th. No other irises are blooming around here at all, in fact
> I'm harvesting seedpods from the early stalk. I was hoping to work on
> rebloom at the diploid level, and had hoped to get F2 (second
> generation) seedlings with some rebloom from crosses like this one;
> but the possibility of first generation rebloom seemed unlikely.
>
>  My question is..."Is this something to really be excited about? Or
> is it typical for a very vigorous hybrid seedling to bloom
> erratically until it gets more mature and settled?"

I have several cultivars of Iris varigatae and they all rebloom
consistently for me in zone 4/5.  You didn't mention what species you
used, that would help others respond.

Chuck Chapman Guelph, Ontario, Canada


 

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