Re: CULT: weather

I hope the weather spares both of you. Here, in northern Virginia, I've just today removed the pine straw mulch from the seedling pots and find a few of them sending up 2 or 3-day-old shoots -- mostly SDBs, but a couple of TBs, too. Once they start, they're usually all up within a week or 10 days. They're right on schedule. Now comes the anxious part -- how much germination? -- Griff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Walters" <jeffwiris@yahoo.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: weather



Linda,
I hope that the direst predictions will not come true for you. When I got outside this evening to take a look around my garden after four straight days of rain I discovered a number of stalks emerging - FURIOSO (IB; B. Blyth, 1997) had buds opening (one almost fully open) on two stalks, and it is not just Medians, as a quick look around revealed several TBs with stalks already up 8-10". The predicted overnight low here is 39 - hope that is not too optimistic. 

Jeff Walters
in upstate South Carolina
(USDA Zone 7b)


--- On Sun, 3/29/09, Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com> wrote:


From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
Subject: [iris] CULT: weather
To: iris@hort.net
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 6:36 PM
Well, rats.

Supposed to freeze tonight, but still lots of cloud cover,
so hopefully it won't get cold enough/last long enough
to kill everything.  After a week near 70 and all this rain,
timing is not good, at least for the TBs.  Medians can take
it, even in bud, but even tho TBs (other than RETURN TO
BAYBERRY) aren't showing (or feelable in the fan), we
are <well> within 6 wks of TB bloom, which is prime
time to do damage - rot at worst, infertile or at least
fertility resistance at best.

Keeping my fingers crossed & covering pots with reemay,
just to be safe, but the rows are on their own - just too
much work to cover everything.

Linda M
TN


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