Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
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- Subject: Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
- From: S* H* <h*@serc.si.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:45:27 -0600 (MDT)
At 08:48 6/11/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Sharyn Hedrick wrote:
>
>> John-- After reading yesterday's comments I went home and rechecked my
>> Sultry Mood and it does have three bloomstalks coming off the center rz.
>> This is a new variety to my garden. I purchased it from Schreiner's Gardens
>> last summer. It also has two more rz one off each side that did not purduce.
>>
>Sharyn,
>
>Being a commercial garden and growing many tall bearded (800) this is
>*not* an uncommon event in my garden. Of course it mainly happens on
>large rhizomes and it does look as if individual multiple stalks are
>coming from the growing tip of the rhizome. I never thought of them as
>really low branchs as Bill Shear mentioned, but perhaps they are. I
>welcome them in my business as this produces a better show.
>
>Another instance of where I have seen this happen is in the condition
>called "Pineappling". A malady of warmer climates. The fan will begin
>to fold and pleat and the flowering stems are short, clubby and
>malformed often producing multiple stalks.
>
>Rick Tasco
>Superstition Iris Gardens...where we are preparing to solarize our new
>beds for next year.
>Central California
>Zone 8
>Rick,
My " Sultry Mood" was as extremely large rz to begin with last
summer when I received it, and I am also in a semi-warmer climate in
Annapolis, Md.
We have had an unusually cold spring this year, days mid-60's nights 40-50's.
The last three days have finally started warming up. I've got a black fungus
on half my plants and iris borer on many of my irise. I was immobile last
fall and couldn't clean up my garden as I like. I guess I'm paying the price
now.
This "Pineappling" effect sounds awful. I don't think I have it.
Sharyn
