Re: Re: IB: increase/VOICES
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: IB: increase/VOICES
- From: B* S*
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:40:04 -0500
On 3/29/02 11:14 AM, "GardnrJan1@aol.com" <GardnrJan1@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 3/29/2002 10:07:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> wshear@hsc.edu writes:
>
>
>> Some of these "increases" may belong
>> to those, and as such, will not produce new rhizomes for next year
>
> Bill,
> Point taken. Of course as long as they bloom I'm happy! Wonder
> if I broke off the increases now (not that I'm planning to) they'd develop
> differently? Anything like cutting pieces off a rz and setting them back
> in the soil?
I doubt this would work because the bloomstalks would already be formed
inside the fans. I haven't looked this closely, but my impression is that
these extra bloomstalks don't have any rhizome nodes, but arise directly
from an axillary bud. As such, they would not be able to produce any
increase on their own. It would be like cutting off and trying to root a
bloomstalk--which doesn't happen.
Another scenario--sometimes increases form so early in the season that they
bloom the following spring, along with the terminal. In such cases, the
side stalks DO have rhizome nodes, and so produce their own "secondary"
increases. This can happen in rebloomers that almost but not quite rebloom
the preceeding season.
Bill Shear
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