Re: Re: CULT:AIS: Predicting Rebloom
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT:AIS: Predicting Rebloom
- From: w*
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:01:34 -0500
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On 18 Jul 2002 at 2:18, Pherber@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 07/15/2002 5:54:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Bill
> Burleson writes:
>
> > Proposal #5: AIS check list information, relative to rebloom, should
> > contain/require the following information from hybridizers. A two
> > digit character should follow the rebloom designation (RE)
> > designating the number
>
> > of months or weeks after initial bloom the iris initiates rebloom.
>
> Would that indicator be accurate for all zones, though? It might be
> more useful if they also included the zone info.
>
> Nina McClure
> Denver zone 5
>
>
Rebloom is too variable and iffy to list such precise information.
CANTINA, for example, is quite a reliable rebloomer here, but in
all of the years I've had it, it has picked different times to rebloom.
Sometimes, it will rebloom in May and June, and other years it is a
fall rebloomer, only. Most of the time ROSALIE FIGGE is a very
late rebloomer in November or December. Last year, it rebloomed
in September, so there is no way of telling. It has to do with
rainfall, soil temperature, culture, etc. In other words, when
conditions are right, and not by the calendar. The only rebloomer
I know that is fairly accurate is ARIL REVERIE. It starts rebloom
nearly a month after initial rebloom. It may or may not rebloom
again in November or December. Rebloomers must be 'in the
mood' to rebloom.
The registrar used to record rebloomers with a phrase as follows:
'Re (Oct. in MS).' Now only 'RE' appears. The rest was probably
not included in later issues of the Checklist because of the
unpredictable nature of rebloomers in most of the country outside
of the west coast.
In the reblooming checklist, you will find the zones where the
cultivar has rebloomed.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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