Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
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  • Subject: Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: C* C* <d*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 07:09:39 -0500
Maladaptive with changes from original environment. That is grow bloom etc in a way that causes problems. such as an iris not blooming. A good example is with lateral clines of a maple species ( I think it was sugar maple or could have been Norway maple). One taken from near Arctic circle and planted in Virginia that never went dormant until after freezing. The one from Virginia transplanted to near Arctic circle didn't start growing until very late in season and went dormant very early, so hardly grew. Different environmental circumstances. what adapted it to one climate was a problem in another. Same species, different adaptations. What worked in native habitat was maladaptive in a different climate. 

Chuck Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 9:22 pm
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida

Hmm..,. will dig up the refs again when I have time.  first post was in
2007 'a few months' after planting. The second post was 2008. I didn't make a note of what month the two reports were made. You may be right - 
I assumed bloom was at least a year after planting, but may not have
been.  Anybody reading this thread a member of gardenweb, willing to
contract Hawaii50 and ask about his experiments?

Not sure what you mean by this - maladaptive to survival in the changed
environment?  Or maladaptive to survival in the original environment.
Maladaptive in what way.

<Or go through it in  strange  way that is maladaptive, the more the
change to environmental signals, the more maladaptive. >

On 11/7/2014 9:18 AM, Chuck Chapman wrote:

The report  on the cultivar  blooming repeatedly was also on a plant
that had been planted  previous year ( so I suspect).


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