Re: HYB:Seedling:Planting:Blooming

Betty, of course, my climate is entirely different from yours, and I have only been pollen daubing for three years, but last year on a row I planted in March and covered with shade cloth during the summer heat, I got about 70 % bloom by late April this year.  Right now I am trying to keep about 400 little seedlings alive in 110+ heat, and I am losing some.  I am going to have to do something different with the seeds I am just starting to harvest now, because I have no place to put any more seedlings until my guest irises leave next summer.  I am planning to soak them in the spring, refrigerate them over summer and plant in the fall.  I really think that with a row cover, I can get seedlings through winter here better than I can through our fierce summers.  Has anyone from a warm climate tried this?
Francelle Edwards,  Glendale,  AZ  Zone 9
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  From: Autmirislvr@aol.com 
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  Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 7:59 AM
  Subject: [iris-talk]HYB:Seedling:Planting:Blooming


  No matter how hard I try, I rarely get bloom from first year seedlings.  Last 
  year I 
  was fortunate to have cool weather long enough to plant seedlings in mid-may. 
  Still, of the ones that survived, few floomed.  Same with the year before.  
  Planted early, but only a few bloomed.  

  For a variety of reasons, I'll have to plant in the fall this year.  It's too 
  hot now and will stay that way, I suspect.  I hate having to add an entire 
  year onto the process.  Reason for the potting I mentioned earlier.

  To all that hyrbidize---Are you able to plant in the spring and what 
  percentage of bloom do you get the next year?  

  Betty Wilkerson Zone 7 SouthCentral Kentucky

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