CULT: Hooked central fans
- Subject: CULT: Hooked central fans
- From: J* C*
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:44:48 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>Congratulations, Mike. I understand your excitement. We're far from
>bloom season, I haven't even spotted a swollen fan yet, but I was out
>for a while this morning, checking for hooked center fans. (Ask >Lloyd
about this one.) Have fun!
Betty from Bowling Green, KY.
A friend of mine (the one who gave me my first, un-named TB's) swears by
the following method of telling if flowers are imminent. She goes around
my garden in early spring and tells me this one, or that one will
flower, the rest won't.
The 'flowering' ones have the central leaf wider, and more curved than
the rest of the fan. I guess this is from rapid growth at the centre of
the fan. The base of the fan thickens a little after this central leaf
curvature.
Her method is fine, except that it fails to pick up (in early spring)
the later bloomers, which are not showing the curved central leaf.
Is this what you are talking about Betty? I've only been growing TB's
seriously for a couple of years, but I have noticed this with the TB's.
I don't think it happens with the dwarf irises.
Jan Clark, from 'Pot City' Australia.
Er- that's irises in pots, not the stuff some people smoke!
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