Re: CULT: fall seedlings
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: fall seedlings
- From: D* E*
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:00:26 -0600
Betty,
>the only time this happened to me I left them in the pot (we're talking
>brand new, less than an inch tall) and they died.
Well, two more new ones when I got home. I'm wondering how many are going
to sprout. Our winters usually aren't awful for long durations, but we do
have our spells. I'm think of sinking the pots somewhere. At the moment
this is the best I've come up with. No greenhouse, no grow lights. A nice
glassed-in porch, but when I tried that I had damping off (and not nine pots
of crosses). Only the first couple are more than an inch tall. I wonder
why they didn't sprout last spring? They apparently had enough cooling.
It'd be nice if they lived as that would give them a head start next spring.
The best thing would be that during the winter months they would be safe
from grasshoppers, katydids and a number of other insects that have been my
biggest bane in growing seedlings. May not offset teen temps in the winter,
though.
I'd sure like to keep them if I can.
>Find some way to protect them. Leave them in the pots. Place them on the
>West side of the house/barn/shed--cover with straw/leaves etc., to a depth
of
>6 inches or more.
You don't mean the whole plant here, do you? Seems like that would bury
them too deep. Our winters are seldom cold enough to just cover something
completely unless it is a plant that goes dormant after the first freeze
anyway. Irises generally never go that dormant here.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
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