MED: BLAST fertility of seeds

From: Sterling Okase <sterling_o@yahoo.com>



--- Maslon@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I had read the atricle written on BLAST, I had noted
> it stated the owner who 
> had a hard time makeing seeds, also mentioned
> holding seeds for the next 
> year, -- Question: how long can seeds after the
> first year be saved?
> christopher maslon
> MASLON@AOL>COM

Hi Chris,

That was me. I have grown Blast since it was first
introduced and love it very much. For clean, bright
color, there is nothing else like it on the market.
Orange standards and velvet purple falls with a
shreiking, fat and bushy tangerine beard. It grows
like a weed and sports about seven buds on each stalk.
Okay, that's it for my shameless plug for BLAST.

Every year I have too many seeds to plant and save
them in paper envelopes. I don't keep them
refrigerated or anything, just at room temperature in
a drawer. Last year I sent a bunch of those seeds to
an Irisarian in Australia. Some were 5-6 years old and
they germinated just fine for him. I read somewhere (I
think in World of Iris) that iris seeds have a delayed
germination factor of 20 years.

And apologies to the list. I messed up the message tag
on the original message (AGAIN!!)


===
Iris Maniac,
Sterling (not Innerst)
sterling_o@yahoo.com
Seattle, WA. Zone 8
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