Re: HYB: burrito method etc

Francelle Edwards in AZ, where it gets seriously hot in summer but
humidity/rainfall is low said:
<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 don't pot most of them individually.  Maybe it's the crosses I'm
working with, but mine are still growing in partial shade, still rotting
a few after the last 1.5 inches of rain followed by heat and high
humidity.  The fans are about a foot high, lush foliage, but rhizomes
are only about 1/4 inch diameter on most.

I don't know what to tell you Francelle, other than my experience in
trying to line seedlings out once heat and humidity are high - if I keep
them well watered, they more or less stew in their own juices and I
can't keep them healthy, much less growing well.  If I don't keep them
well watered, they just fry.  Although I confess I have never tried
using shade to protect them from the worst of the heat.  Maybe I will
experiment with some bee pod seedlings that I don't care too much about.

However, so many will rot in this kind of climate, I'd just as soon they
get that over with in their window box crowded planting before I go to
the trouble of lining them out.  So many introductions selected in
regions with low humidity and low rainfall during the hot part of the
year will rot here.  They just aren't adapted to our climate.  So even
tho you aren't seeing rot in your seedlings in your climate, they might
rot here.

Francelle continued:
< 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.>

Most of the irises that will live here usually can bloom normally with
frost on the bloomstalks if it doesn't get much below 30, & plants
aren't bothered at that temperature, so I'd say that's a good plan.  I
wanted to get mine germinated in the fall also, but the pods are
ripening so late, I won't have time to dry, soak, & burrito for 3 months
before late November, & it can get down to the single digits sometimes
by then.  :-(

--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
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