Re: bad (?) bud count
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: bad (?) bud count
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:25:48 -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 -- Rick is surely right that varieities will respond differently
to different climes. cultivation, etc. For what it's worth, I grow only
one of those you listed -- FANCY TALES. If I get 6 buds, it's a very
good year. Nonetheless, it's a beauty, as you say.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac, and intending to make the
beardless show at Chatham Mall on the morrow.
