Re: IRIS CULTURE: Small rhizomes




> In a message dated 7/15/01 11:29:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> arilbredbreeder@cs.com writes:
> 
> 
> > The question, of course, is whether TBs have similar maturity
> > indicators.....
> > 
> > Sharon McAllister


Arilbred rhizomes always surprise me.  Sometimes when the arilbreds 
are breaking dormancy and I divide them in September, many are like 
the size of your thumbnail, but they come on and bloom anyway.

Last year, I participated in the ASI rhizome sale.  The rhizomes I 
got were very small to begin with and completely dried out; some were 
without roots and foliage and packed in little brown paper sacks.  
Most bloomed this spring, not on show stalks, but they bloomed.

Sometimes the biggest, pumped up rhizome from the West Coast does not
bloom the spring after purchase, yet the peanut-sized rhizome from 
the East Coast does.  There may well be something in the genes.  
GREAT GATSBY was here four or five years before it bloomed.  It came 
as a 'yam' and increased into a mighty clump of 'yams' before it 
finally burst into bloom this spring.  When a cultivar has been 
around for awhile without bloom, it sometimes helps to tell it that 
this is the last year, babe.  Oh, maybe, I didn't say babe to the GG, 
but we did have a talk.  If GG sulks after division in a few weeks, I 
will make good on the promise.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8 (Beginning to fill orders)

 

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