SDB: Oddities
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- Subject: SDB: Oddities
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- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:11:31 -0700 (MST)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:30:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Croftway@aol.com
To: iris-l@rt66.com
Graham Spencer wrote:
: There was research done over here on the tendency of some beardeds to produce
: extra flower "bits". It seems not to be stable in most cases, but in my
: experience is more common in some varieties. The ancient SDB BLUE POOLS
: always produces malformed flowers on at least one clump in ten. We reckon it
: may be the result of late frost damage, causing the stem to repair itself too
: well.
: Anyone else got a theory?
I also believe it to be linked with a cold snap. It does not always affect the
same cultivar, but rather a number of them open with malformed flowers at the
same time. This pattern is easy to spot with New Mexico's erratic spring
weather -- in a more stable climate it seems quite reasonable that the same
cultivars might be affected, year after year.
Sharon McAllister
73371.2745@compuserve.com
