Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: T* G* <a*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:16:19 -0500
Linda,
I thought seriously about refrigerating them for about 2 minutes. After 10+
years of tending 3 1/2 acres of them I decided to let the ones I brought
down here either grow or die using only reasonable care. They chose the
later.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Paul Archer <233d65621@rewrite.hort.net>
wrote:

> I have a feeling that won't work, but not for reasons you might
> immediately realize.  I've tried transplanting Iris in early Spring.  Iris
> send out roots to anchor themselves early in the Fall.  Even though those
> Fall created roots are dead from freezing they still anchor the rhizome.
> There is new growth that emerges in Spring and initiates root growth on
> newly emerging fans.  However this root growth leads to the rhizome not
> being anchored enough so when it blooms it falls over.  So digging up the
> anchoring system from the Fall is the main problem.
>
> Plus, since the Iris is a rhizome, though dormant, still needs light.
> Obviously, bulbs that are truly dormanmt, planted and buried do not.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
> >Sent: Nov 5, 2014 1:35 PM
> >To: iris@hort.net
> >Subject: Re: [iris] Re:Growing Iris South Florida
> >
> >What about in zone 9 (or 10?) dry climate?  I thought there were bearded
> >irises growing in hot dry parts of the country without much
> >vernalization?  Maybe it gets colder in those places than I realize.
> >
> >I figure where there's a will there's a way - how about digging and
> >storing them in the fridge for a month or 4 each winter, 'forcing' them
> >like tulips.
> >
> >Did you try anything like that, Tom?
> >
> >On 11/5/2014 11:45 AM, Chuck Chapman wrote:
> >> They will get bud set temperatures, but not vernalization temperatures.
> >> Need both.
> >>
> >> Chuck Chapman
> >
> >Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7
> >
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Tom Gormley
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