Re: RE: Bloom Time/late flowers
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: Bloom Time/late flowers
- From: j*
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:40:02 -0400
Chuck -- This sounds like a characteristic that should be developed. I hope
you're pursuing it.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Chapman <irischapman@netscape.net>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:38 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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