Re: SHORT IRIS
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: SHORT IRIS
- From: N*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:29:59 -0600 (MDT)
In a message dated 5/28/97 4:34:23 AM, you wrote:
<<THIS YEAR MOST OF MY TALL IRIS BLOOMS WERE SHORTER THAN THE LEAVES. WHAT
CAUSES THIS? ONCE THE HEAT RETURNED BACK TO THE EIGHTIES THEY SEEMED TO
HAVE LONGER STALKS. COULD IT BEE THE EARLY HEAT WE HAD THIS YEAR?
>>
Audry, short stalks like the tight buds you were describing earlier, can
usually be attributed to a freeze just at the time the stalk was forming
below ground. We are seeing the same thing here also and it effects those
iris that are usually fairly early bloomers.
Harry Wolford, N8KXP
Reynoldsburg, OH Zone 6
