Re: HYB: potting 101

Thanks for the clarification, Mike.

My sister lives in southern Ohio and we often compare notes on climate
and effects on garden plants.  It is often just as hot there as it gets
here, just not as often and doesn't last as long.  Makes a big
difference from zone 5b to zone 7b.  Same with the humidity.  Cumulative
effect.

<We have 90 degree weather here too plus humidity. Mike zone 5b>

I tried pushing mine last summer, but they more or less just sat there.
They grew some, but not like yours.  I tried dissolving fertilizer
(Miracle Gro etc), adding dry powder (per Walter's suggestion), using
Osmocote slow release, none of these treatments seemed to have much
effect.

Seeds that germinated last fall and over the winter to very early spring
are  as big or bigger than your seedlings, tho none have the kind of
increase that yours do.  But the seeds that germinated at the usual time
in spring are still tiny.  Big enough to line out and probably survive
the winter, but barely so.

Maybe it's the bloodlines we are working with as well as
bloom/germination season.

<I push them from the time I pot till I line them out.
                   They seem to handel more water and fertilizer than
big iris.They don't seem
                   to slow down until winter.>

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