Re: Question about Potential Blooms
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Question about Potential Blooms
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:27:59 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: Barbara Jackson <
>
> Barb here in SW Manitoba reporting in with something I've not come across
> before. Green Prophecy is new last fall to my garden. It has put up a
> bloom stalk and there were three potential flowers on it. This afternoon
I
> noticed that one (the uppermost one) has just disappeared, the other two
> appear to be just fine and will probably open sometime over the next few
> days. Is there an explanation for this?
Barb,
How near to opening was your missing top bud? Is it possible that someone
or something came along and knocked it off the stalk? I have had this
happen to terminal buds that were almost ready to open (usually, I was the
"someone of something" responsible for the decapitation).
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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