Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
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- Subject: Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:09:56 -0600 (MDT)
John I Jones wrote:
>
> Mark, Maureen wrote:
> >
> > Point of clarification -- there are some varieties that have multiple bloom
> > stalks on the same rhizome e.g., Celebration Song. . .
>
> 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?
>
John -- I noticed a second bloomstalk on a single rhizome as I was
culling seedlings the other day. The second stalk appeared to have
sprung out from underneath the first. No other sign of abnormality in
the clump.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon.
jgcrump@erols.com
