Re: REB: midsouth compilation of rebloom
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] REB: midsouth compilation of rebloom
- From: o*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:45:58 EDT
In a message dated 6/19/2002 9:31:36 AM Central Daylight Time,
lmann@volfirst.net writes:
> Bill, any chance that you could post the 30 that you found would rebloom
> in your latitude?
Will do soon. Gotta find the brochure we printed.
>
> Were these 30 all able to rebloom in the southeast or were some only
> rebloomers in the same latitude but with less rainfall? In other words,
> was the compilation specific to the southeast or to the entire southern
> US?
Compilation was from within 50 mile north or south of a line drawn from
Greenville Ms. (western boundary of Ms.) through Birmingham Ala. to the
eastern boundary of Ala. I am not in tune with conventional wisdom concerning
moisture being given such a high degree of influence on rebloom. Logic
dictates otherwise. We often see sporadic performance in iris rebloom. To a
large degree iris (all plants) have the ability to control moisture
availability through root production/length of/depth of/type of etc. To
observe this one needs only dig rhizomes growing in different conditions and
examine. Instead I attribute (hypothesize) temperature and fluctuations in
same to be the predominant factor affecting rebloom. Temperature is a factor
over which the plant obviously has little control. Hence, sporadic rebloom.
Further I suspect many cultivars are genetically programmed to rebloom and
procreate when the temperature ranges they experience indicate there is a
reasonable probability there progeny will survive.
>
> Have you charted all the pedigrees to see if there are some common
> ancestors?
I wish. Too lazy to do such when I know someday you might post <g> Too, I
know I'm gonna smear some consistent rebloomers pollen on everything when I
have it anyway. <bg> Until then I continue to use a secret weapon resource -
Waltah.
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