Re: TB: Bud Count (was ANOMOLY?)

Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
> 
> Hi Rima!
>      You write (10 June 97):
> >
> > Now the anomaly, if indeed it is such.  On my VSOIs (very superior old
> > irises), the pale yellow un-named TBs I keep talking about, there are a
> > profusion of bloomstalks and many buds.  About five stalks are now in
> > bloom. The bloomstalks range from 19 to 32" and the tallest has five
> > buds on one stalk.  The others that are as tall have four on each and
> > the smaller ones have three.  I've never seen five buds on an iris TB
> > bloomstalk, or any other for that matter.  these irises were the ones
> > that were divided yet bloomed profusely the very next spring (which was
> > last spring).  This year they are even better.  Are they really very
> > superior or are five buds to a stalk not unusual?
> 
> We are taught in Judges' Training that 7 buds is the minimum desirable
> number in a modern TB. Quite a few cultivars have 8 or 9 buds per stalk and
> some have 11, or rarely, even more. I wonder if you were referring to
> individual buds in your posting, or perhaps to branches, which may be
> multi-budded? This is how the bud counts that I am referring to are
> achieved on stalks with a terminal, spur, and two or three branches, which
> is typical in the newer cultivars.
> 
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@cache.net
Hi Jeff--

I'm not sure I know the difference, so I will go out and take a good
look when I get back from work today.  It seems like the more I know,
the less I know.
Rima  terra@catskill.net
upstate NY  zone 4
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