Re: bad (?) bud count
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: bad (?) bud count
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:20:25 -0600 (MDT)
Mark Thornsburg wrote:
>
> This question has been bugging me for at least a week, but I FINALLLY
> remembered to ask it. A while back someone said, that when judging an
> iris, anything less than 7 buds is a "fault" yet, some of the most DDG
> (drop dead gawjus) irises have only 5 or 6 ie, ACOMA, ELEGANT
> IMPRESSIONS (6-7 buds), FANCY TALES (6 buds), and the list goes on...
>
> So, at a show, can these irises win a blue ribbon? Even with the
> "fault" of having less than 7 buds? An inquiring mind wants to know.
>
Rusty,
I'm sure you grow iris very well and to the best of your ability, but in
someone elses garden the above varieties "may" have 7 or more buds.
Sometimes it has to do with minerals in the soil, climate, fertilizer or
etc. You must see the iris growing in other gardens in other parts of
the country before you decide how many buds a variety may have. As
Sharon McCallister says there are no absolutes.
On the other hand there are varieties that are known to have low bud
count and maybe those are some of the ones you mention above. I grow
two of them, but I have 800 talls, and can't remember the bud counts on
those. Maybe someone else on this list will remember and let you
know.
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California
Zone 8
