Re: Species rebloom!
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  • Subject: Re: Species rebloom!
  • From: P* A* <p*@mindspring.com>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:14:01 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I personally didn't post any pics simply because I didn't have my camera and they were freeze damaged.  I'll have to take some in the Spring.   


-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Smith <irisgrower@cableone.net>
>Sent: Nov 12, 2010 2:18 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris] Species rebloom!
>
>Chuck,
>
>Did you post any photos w any of this?  Maybe I just missed them. If you
>have some, my rebloom chairperson that's new to this would really like to
>see what you are talking about.
>
>
>
>
>Linda in CW AZ
>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: Chuck Chapman
>Date: 11/12/2010 7:51:25 AM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris] Species rebloom!
>
>  You will need to seperate out the clones and check if you get spring and
>fall
>bloom on same cultivar.
>
>Getting maiden fall bloom on a seedling? often is a one off event. Plant
>will
>carry over vernalization from spring when maturity wasn't sufficient to
>enable
>day length to trigger bloom.? Once it blooms in spring, the vernalization is
>reset. Reset doesn't occur until plant blooms, so if it doesn't bloom in
>spring, it is primed, waiting for day length signal.
>
>Chuck Chapman
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Archer &amp;lt;pharcher@mindspring.com&gt;
>To: Iris chat forum &amp;lt;iris@hort.net&gt;
>Sent: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 6:41 pm
>Subject: [iris] Species rebloom!
>
>
>
>
>I went out to do some Fall clean up today and noticed one of my seed grown I
>
>suaveolens var. rubromarginata had send up multiple flowers though with some
>freeze damage.  So now I am wondering if this is unusual for this species to
>rebloom in the Fall.  A couple of its sibs did rebloom this past Spring and
>this
>one may have as well.  This one though is a decent (for the species) dusky
>purple with red-purple tinged foliage that persists into the Summer more so
>than
>the others did.  The sibs also had dull yellow flowers.  They do need to be
>separated as they have intermingled some in their mat-forming habit so my
>recollection of which one did what is cloudy.  But this is the only that
>rebloomed now.  I don't generally water or fertilize much especially since
>this
>one is in a raised bed with he Arils and Arilbreds and it has been rather
>dry
>here lately.  Taking those factors into consideration and the mutiple
>inflorescences it must be the real thing and not a fluke.
>
>Any thoughts from the Rebloom Gurus on this ocurrance or from others who
>have
>grown this species?  I know that the regular I. suaveolens (and decendants)
>can
>give reblooming seedlings, but haven't heard of many of the pure species
>doing
>so let alone here in Zone 5 and in the Fall no less.
>
>Paul Archer
>Indianapolis, IN
>
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