Re: HYB: repeat - burrito seed stratification

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda Mann 
  To: iris-talk 
  Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:47 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: repeat - burrito seed stratification

  Hi, Linda,
  My methods are mostly the same as yours.  I potted my seeds in late Feburary this year.  About three weeks later than I wanted to and should have.  Germination was only about 50%.  By April 1, they were two inches high and I started trasplanting them into their garden bed.  In the first row I planted, they are now six to ten inches high, and some of them are rotting.  Later plantings are much smaller, some scarcely growing at all, some dwindling, but I don't see any rot.  They've never known any daytime temperature less that 100 degrees.  If I can just get them through this summer, the strong ones will do fine. I don't know how or why you grow yours in pots so long.  After a month in pots, mine quit growing and start looking unhappy.

  I am considering chilling my seeds over next summer, potting them in mid September and transplanting them in late October.  Frost is apt to occur in late November; December and January may have freezes down to 28 degrees, but I think with a good row cover, I can get them thriough the winter better than I can through these wonderfully hot summers.  I hope so anyway.  I don't have any place to put anything next spring.

  Francelle Edwards   Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

  Seedlings are still not big enough (early July) to safely rough it out
  in the garden.  In a few more weeks, a few will probably be big enough
  with some protection by teepees of leafy tree twigs and with extra
  water.

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  Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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