Re: CULT: SDBs and mild winters
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- Subject: Re: CULT: SDBs and mild winters
- From: "* S* <s*@lightspeed.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:11:53 -0600 (MDT)
Maureen,
Chanted quite often has four falls and standards, and in any given year we
will have some SDBs and TBs that have four falls and standards. Usually
it's only the terminal, once in a while it's on a branch. Most of the time
the rest of the flowers bloom "normal". It doesn't happen too often. I
have never thought of associating it with mild winters but I guess we have
mild winters compared to most of the country.
Mike Sutton
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> From: Mark.Maureen@fin.gc.ca
> To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
> Subject: CULT: SDBs and mild winters
> Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 9:12 AM
>
> It's turning out to be a strange year for SDBs. I've e-mailed Barbara
> Aitken about Dot Com and apparently the terminal buds also opened with
four
> falls for them. She reports that for some, it appears to be genetic but
for
> others, she is attributing it to the weather, possibly mild winters. We
> have also had an unusually mild and short winter. It appears to only
affect
> terminal buds -- all other blooms on the stalk are normal.
>
> So far, only Smell the Roses, Dot Com and Peach Petal Pie have done this
and
> only for some stalks. The majority of SDBs are behaving normally.
>
> Anyone with mild winters grow SDBs? What is your experience?
>
> Maureen Mark
> Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- just bloomed today are Blue Line (SDB), Bit of
> Chocolate (MTB?), Klingon Princess (SDB), Yat Rock (SDB)
