CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom

Mark, Maureen wrote:
> 
> Point of clarification -- there are some varieties that have multiple bloom
> stalks on the same rhizome e.g., Celebration Song.  These, however, are not
> classified as rebloomers.  The additional stalks are referred to as
> successive bloom. 

Hmmmm, That is a new one on me. There was a discussion a couple of
months ago about multiple stalks from the same rhizome, and I thought
that the general wisdom was that it only occurred due to some unusual
stress, even damage to the plant. 

I had discovered a rz with multiple stalks coming out of it, I called it
"squid" stalks because I had been watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
and it reminded me of the squid in the movie. It was around 2/18 and I
remember that Bill Shear suggested an effect called "fascination".
Another term that I think I remember was "accordian". 

Does Celebration Song do this routinely? Does anyone know of others?

Anybody want to help out here?


> They  extend the bloom season.  Rebloomers offer two
> distinct periods of bloom although  some varieties bloom continuously in
> some regions.

"The World Of Irises" page 137 

"A rebloomer may be defined as any iris that produces an extra period of
full bloom each year. By full bloom is meant bloom of or or more
increases from each rhixome that flowered during the immediately
preceding regular preiod."

That is to say: In the spring a rz blooms, it puts out new increases,
and the new increases in turn bloom in the same season. Lets say a rz
blooms in Feb. It blooms again in Oct. That is reblooming. Here in
California it gets a little tricky when it blooms in Dec. Is that
reblooming or early blooming for the next year?

Then there are continuous bloomers like Crimson King for me. It will
throw up a bloom stalk almost every month (off of new increases each
time) throughout the year.



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