Re: AR: handling arilbred seedlings
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AR: handling arilbred seedlings
- From: w*
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 06:26:57 -0600
- Priority: normal
On 23 Nov 01, at 18:28, Donald Eaves wrote:
> Walter says:
>
> >The only seedlings
> >usually not mature enough to line out in early spring are beardless
> >and arilbreds. Arilbred seedlings have a tendency to go dormant, and I
> >have lost many because of spring transplanting.
>
> Walter, you are making me nervous here. This is the second time you have
> referenced not lining out arilbred seedlings in spring. I have been doing
> that.
Donald, relax. I should have put 'here' in that paragraph. I used to line them
out in the spring when I lived in Texas, too, but in Mississippi even
those with just a smidgen of aril ancestry want to go dormant right
after transplanting, some a little later. Then it turns very hot,
they do go dormant, and I don't seem them again. Summer rainshowers
must cause them to rot when they want to be dry.
About dying or damping off in pots, granular Terrachlor is the
best thing to prevent that. Put it in your seed soil mix and after
the seeds germinate, sprinkle more on top occasionally, and they'll
survive.
. Pots require constant attention and
> sooner or later something is going to interfere with my being able to give
> it the kind of attention pots seem to require. So what would be your
> suggestion here?
Get some wooden shingles and build teepees over the transplants you lined out.
This protects the newly-set plant from heat and helpt to retain
moisture. Be careful in moving around the hoses because you can
knock over the shingles and they'll have to be reset. You can tacky
up your garden, too, with all of those shingles.
There is no pat answer, liviing in areas of extreme heat as we do
- yours hot and dry and mine hot and humid.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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