Re: CULT: Help
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Help
- From: D* P*
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:36:54 -0500
They will grow fine....provided the pot is big enough. It should be at least 10" deep and 10" wide for a single rhizome. Good drainage required, so hole(s) in bottom a must.
Plant the rhizome with the non-fan end fairly close to the edge of the pot. Increase will generally occur off the fan end and this will optimize the area.
You will need to be careful, as the pots get very hot in the summer, and require more water than iris in the ground . They also can use a bit more food...watering carries the nutrients out those holes, whereas they would stay in the soil if in the ground.
We have one club member who does landscaping, and grows most of his iris in pots, for his business, but has been known to win ribbons at shows with stalks cut from the potted iris.
Dell
Plano Texas zone7/8
Bloom is all but over....now the long wait thru the hot summer until rebloom.
In a message dated 5/11/00 4:44:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
MrMan32874@aol.com writes:
<< I Love Iris. The problem, I live in a apt. I had heard that you could
force
Irises to grow and bloom in a pot. If this true and if so how do you do it.
>>
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