Re: REB: experiments
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  • Subject: Re: REB: experiments
  • From: &* S* <i*@suttoniris.com>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:32:44 -0700
wow, your temps are exactly like ours right now Linda. We will finally hit our normal high today, first time in two months. Looks like here we will have a couple of normal days and nights this week. Just an observation right now....With the much cooler and wetter than usual spring/early summer we have had, iris rebloom is about normal for this time of year, for whatever that is worth. 
Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 5:03 AM
Subject: [iris] REB: experiments
Looks like we have reached the time when vegetable gardens here can no longer depend on rainfall to survive, so I have finally gotten a little submersible pump hooked up in the spring branch & am doing some serious watering of some of the garden.
The water is definitely colder than air temperature ;-) So I'm going to experiment with regular soaking some of the rebloomers during the heat of summer, see if that will trigger earlier rebloom.
For now, we are still in agricultural, not hydrologic drought, so flow in the spring is still good. If it stays as dry regionally as they are forecasting, it may get too low to continue watering. I'm not willing to dry up the creek just to water, but hopefully it won't get that bad this year.
Chuck, any cultivars you'd especially like me to soak? Highs in the 90s, lows in the mid to upper 60s right now. 

Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7

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