Re: CULT: Stalks galore
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: CULT: Stalks galore
  • From: R*@aol.com
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:39:27 -0400 (EDT)

After weeks of very wet and cold weather we are going to 80 degrees today.  
Stalks appearing all over the fields and I'm getting the crossing tack  
together.
Fred Kerr
Rainbow Acres
 
 
In a message dated 3/31/2011 9:50:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
iris-owner@hort.net writes:


iris  DIGEST         Thursday, March 31 2011     Volume 01 : Number 1259



In this  issue:

[iris] TB: 'Geniality'
[iris] Re: CULT: Rebloom? weather effects
Fw: [iris] CAT:
Re: [iris]  CULT: rebloom? weather  effects

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Date:  Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:24:44 -0500
From: "Kelly D. Norris"  <kellydn@frontiernet.net>
Subject: [iris] TB: 'Geniality'

Does  anyone still grow 'Geniality' (Opal Brown, 1981)?  I'd love to get  a
piece of it this summer and would be happy to trade someone for  it.



Thanks for any offers in advance,

-  --kdn



Horticulturally,



Kelly D.  Norris

Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm

Editor, Irises: The  Bulletin of the American Iris Society

Bedford & Ames, IA  

Zone 4b/5a

Read my blog at:   <http://www.kellydnorris.com/>  
http://www.kellydnorris.com

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Date:  Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:35:18 -0500
From: Linda Mann  <lmann@lock-net.com>
Subject: [iris] Re: CULT: Rebloom? weather  effects

Oh dear, I didn't torture you guys on purpose.  I forgot  it's still 
winter elsewhere.  ;-)  Southern jet stream has  definitely been farther 
north this year than "typical".  We are past  all the early daffs, late 
ones in full bloom now, trees leafing  out.

Thanks for the thoughts - we all agree!  ;-)

In years  past, erratic warm up (80s F) and hard freeze (teens or lower, 
F) with no  snow over winter has probably eliminated this type of carry 
over bloom  here.

Linda M

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Date: Tue,  29 Mar 2011 20:59:08 +0200
From: "loic tasquier"  <tasquierloic@cs.com>
Subject: Fw: [iris] CAT:

Hello  Mike,

Nothing in Holland yet, what about the  website?

LoC/c
----- Original Message -----
From:  Michael Sutton
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 29,  2011 4:29 PM
Subject: [iris] CAT:


Just checking to  see if anyone has received our catalog yet.  It was mailed
sometime last week.
Mike Sutton
Sutton's Iris  Gardens
Porterville, CA  93257

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011  11:08:17 -0400
From: Chuck Chapman <irischapman@aim.com>
Subject:  Re: [iris] CULT: rebloom? weather effects

Ok, enough of weather  bragging.

We had a snow storm last week, one foot of snow, all schools  cancelled.?
Overnight lows since then of -17C or about -1 F. Snow? still  melting. Last
night not as cold, so perhaps spring will come. Usually have  danfordea and
reticulata up about now

The TB's are likely from  stalks that just started development before winter
set in. I can get this  here, so? likely you would get it there. You can 
feel
sweling at bse of  bud, or see pregnency hook on leaves in fall.? At this
stage, flower stalk  will often over winter.

Chuck Chapman





- ----  Original Message ----
From: Linda Mann  &lt;lmann@lock-net.com&gt;
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Wed, Mar 30,  2011 7:08 am
Subject: [iris] CULT: rebloom? weather  effects

"Normally", whatever that means anymore, average  last frost date here  has
been mid April, which means light frosts  have happened even later.  Hard
freezes that have damaged early growth  have often hit here in late  March.
Low 20's F.?
?
This year, we  haven't had any really hard freezes since Feb.  A few   light
frosts, barely freezing.  So irises haven't been set back at  all  since 
they
started putting on spring growth.  They look  fantastic for a  change here 
in
the 'vale'.?
?
Most years,  germanica blooms first, then the SDBs, then pallida and any
early TBs that  have managed to escape being killed.?
?
This year, the germanicas are  well on their way to showing color, no  sign 
of
buds on the SDBs, but  I'm starting to see stalks on a few TBs.?
?
Two that have stalks up are  either rebloomers or from rebloom breeding -
RENOWN, which normally blooms  mid season, and 2nd season to bloom TEA  
LEAVES
X GOLDEN  PANTHER.?
?
The winter was long and miserable because it stayed cold  rather than the
more typical up and down, but it never got below  10oF.?
?
So I'm wondering - are these stalks that "should" have bloomed  last  fall?
I've never seen RENOWN try to bloom anywhere near this  early.?
?
Just wondering...?
?
Linda Mann east TN USA zone  7ish?
?
?

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