Re: CULT:Nutrients

That makes alot of sense. Not having any personal experience with 
this, but when you look at various pictures of the same named iris on 
different websites, so many of them have different colors, but the 
same names. I always suspected it was more than just the camera and 
lighting.
This sounds like an interesting discussion. Maybe besides nutrition, 
it may have to do with drainage, amount of sunlight, soil 
consistency, acidity.
Betty, can you identify anything different between your side yard and 
back yard? 
Since this is really my first year growing named cultivars, I have no 
personal experience, but it would be nice to identify factors which 
encourage rich color, so we don't have to grow too many of those 
compost-heap candidates.
Laetitia

--- In iris-talk@y..., storylade@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 3/15/2001 7:35:34 PM Central Standard Time, 
> donald@e... writes:
> 
> << And are certain
>  colors more likely to have variation or is it a combination of 
cell size and
>  nutrients?   >>
> 
> It has been my experience that most irises vary in shade and tone 
depending 
> on their diet.  Examples below.
> 
> PHOENIX (Keppel) was gorgeous (MHO) when grown in a bed beside my 
house. 
> Intense beet root red on white with lots of intensity.  When grown 
back on 
> the hill is was a washed out, uninteresting purple. 
> 
> CUT CRYSTAL was a gorgeous, laced, warm cream in my side yard.  An 
iris 
> friend, judge wanted to challenge one at a show that looked exactly 
like 
> mine.  Apparently, it didn't have the same warm cream coloring in 
his yard.  
> His words were, "I've never seen CC look like that." I'd never seen 
it look 
> any other way.   I convinced him to let it pass.  
> 
> My own seedling from Highland Chief and Earl of Essex (sib to 
REBOUND) 
> bloomed a pretty ruffled brown on white in an area relatively near 
the same 
> side yard--50 to 60 feet.  (It has poor branching and bud count).  
However, 
> when I moved it to the bed here, it's just a washed out reddish 
brown.  Not 
> eye catching at all.  It will probably take the path of the shove 
this year.
> 
> Do nutrients have a WIDE effect on irises?  I think so.
> 
> Betty / Bowling Green KY USA  Zone 6
> Only those who dare to dream can make a dream come true.


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