Re: CULT--ONE BLOOM PER RZ?
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- Subject: Re: CULT--ONE BLOOM PER RZ?
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:00:07 -0600 (MDT)
> An AIS friend of mine and I have a similar problem. Several clumps of
> iris TBs grow in the same garden with great foliage and very healthy.
> Only a few each year bloom. she heard from somewhere that the rz that
> gives off a bloomstalk blooms only one year and never blooms again.
> Blooms come only on the offshoots. Is this true? Could this be why not
> all of the fans have bloom stalks?
It is correct that the rz that blooms this year (now known as the mother
rz) will not bloom again. Her job now is to produce new babies for next
year. A percentage of the clump should bloom - 25 to 75% of the total
number of fans should put up a bloom stalk, in a NORMAL year, which this
was anything but.
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
