Re: RE: Bloom Time/late flowers
Right on Chuck. Slow developers probably won't win on the show bench but
they sure are great in the garden. We have a lot of seedlings that do the
repeat bloom thing. In fact we are breeding for it. They send up an early
stalk, mid stalk and late stalk and then sometimes a "next month stalk".
Makes for a really long spring bloom season. This has been a bi-product of
our re-blooming program. We have finished with all but the late variety TBs
right now and the repeat SDB and IB blooms are starting in earnest. Spuria
have hit peak, Japanese are showing buds.
Mike Sutton
Porterville, CA USA
USDA zone 8
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Chapman <irischapman@netscape.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] RE: Bloom Time/late flowers
> Late varieties certainly get short shift, particullarly at
conferences/shows.
> For our own show, when the season is early (as has happened several times
and
> may be the situation this year) the show gets cancelled while I still
have
> many late varieties still in bloom as well a numerous seedlings. At the
end of
> the season I suddenly realize that bloom will soon be almost over (we're
not
> considering rebloom at this time) and there as a rush of crosses made.
This
> has resulted in a bunch of later and later seedlings, some of which are in
> bloom when the spuria start blooming.
> The other factor are those varieties which start early and have succesive
> flower stalks or bloom. A good example of this is my own Canadian Boarder
> (white with red beard). It starts early in the season and appears to have
a
> low bud count yet was still in bloom at the end of the season. It took
awhile
> before I realized what was happening. It has lots of buds but they develop
> slowly. Ones that you can't see or feel at the start of the season develop
> slowly and are there and blooming at the end of the season. Two other
examples
> of this are Darkside and Sheba's Queen, both of which are in bloom for me
for
> close to four weeks. This is a characteristic which often gets missed and
not
> properly respected or appreciated.
>
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