Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
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  • Subject: Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 07:21:03 -0500
Yes.  His posts were on garden web.

On 11/7/2014 12:07 AM, Phloid wrote:

So is the hawaii50 person clearly saying they got these cultivars to
bloom in HI?


Try googling
<bearded iris hawaii zone 10.>
or
<bearded iris hawaii50 gardenweb>
I copied and posted pretty much all I could find. But if you are a member of gardenweb, you can email him/her, see if they are still there. After 6 yrs, they might have more to say.
The main effect from high humidity that we've all guessed is a factor (other than "improved" environment for diseases) is that it keeps temperatures much higher at night. Less back radiation. Here, if it's 100 during the day, it doesn't get below 75 at night. In a desert climate, it gets much cooler, cool enough to keep some rebloomers blooming. Belvi Queen is the only really reliable rebloomer here that can keep reblooming when nights are in the 70s here. I was hoping that selection within other rebloom lines might give me more seedlings that could do that, but I'm starting to think the genes just aren't there in the stuff I've been growing.
I just ordered a couple of Byers old rebloomers to try again. See what mulch and better care will do. Midnight Caller & Winesap. 

Linda Mann

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