RE: Rebloomers & Seed Pods

Marte--maybe it's because we have day jobs.  Actually, I've had trouble lately 
keeping up with the e-mail, what with working full time and then coming home 
and working in the garden till dark.  We usually have dinner on the European 
schedule, that is, around 9:00, veg around for a while, and then I wander off 
to the computer.  But the solstice is this weekend, and it'll start getting 
dark earlier, and things will get back to normal, whatever that is.

I hope your reblooming experiments go well.  The altitude part of the equation 
does throw in a wrinkle sometimes, but I usually get something to rebloom 
here, though the only iris that has rebloomed for me every year for the last 
year is my own SDB seedling, unnamed and unregistered.

Barb, in Santa Fe, where the no-see-ums are out in force

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From: 	iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of Marte Halleck
Sent: 	Wednesday, June 18, 1997 12:40 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: Rebloomers & Seed Pods

Barbara Mann wrote:
> 
> Hi, Marte in the mtns!
> 
> What you do with the pod people depends on whether you'd like to plant 
> the seeds and wait the two-to-several years to see whether you have   
> any interesting new seedlings.  If you do, leave the pods on until    
> they turn brown and begin to split, and then plant the seeds after    
> your first frosts.  Once you see your own seedlings, you'll be hooked!
> 
> On the other hand, yes, if you want your rebloomers to bloom again    
> this year, best to remove the current stalks at the base and give the 
> plants some extra water and fertilizer over the summer.  Either way,  
> best of luck!
> Barb: Thanks for the info on the pod people. Patience I have & it would 
be neat to see what grows from this seed, but I'm supposed to be 
conducting an experiment on reblooming potential of SDB's & TB's in a 
zone 4 dry garden, so I guess I'll remove the pods. 

BTW, earlier this evening Bill Maryott said that leaving the pods on 
would have no effect whatsoever on the plants (energy-wise, I presume 
he's talking about, but I wonder if he meant it wouldn't negatively 
effect "normal" SDB's?) So I continue to be doubtful about whether or 
not seed pods on *rebloomers* lessens chances of that hoped-for second 
bloom in late summer/early fall. Oh, well -- off with their pods!

And Barb -- you & I seem to be the current night owls on this List. Is 
it because we live at a high altitude do you think??!! Or is there some 
deeper, darker significance to us being at our computers in what others 
consider the middle of the night...		

Marte in the mtns	Zone 4/Sunset 1  	Evergreen, Colorado
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