Re: CULT: USDA Zones
- Subject: Re: CULT: USDA Zones
- From: s*
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:57:47 -0700
From: "sidneygardener" <sidneygardener@email.msn.com>
Hi,
I live in Albuquerque, NM, zone 6, and I do have some rebloom right now or
should I say I hope 'Bountiful Harvest' will be completely open by
Thanksgiving. A small aphylla like oldie was blooming at the end of October
but the hail took one flower and the frost got the next one.
Sidney Gardener
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
To: Iris Talk Listserver <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, November 19, 1998 10:59 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: USDA Zones
>From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
>
> RYFigge@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Sharon, you did not say what State or USDA zone you are in--- many are
>> omitting this information. Since I'm trying to keep the Reblooming
>Checklist
>> up-to-date, the omission of this data makes it difficult. Please!
>
>Some people like to include location information on every post. While I
>certainly don't object, I prefer to do it only on relevant ones because I'm
>in a microclimate that gets assigned to different zones depending on which
>map you consult. When I do address cultural concerns, I have to include a
>lot more than zone # to describe the conditions.
>
>I'm in southern New Mexico. Maps place us in either Zone 7 or 8. Winter
>temperatures place us in Zone 6 or 7. Neither method adequately depicts
>local growing conditions. We've had an unusually warm fall this year, with
>one damaging frost, but still no hard freeze. So we still need to have the
>a/c to keep the house under 80 degrees in the daytime. Needless to say, I
>haven't even turned the heat on yet. Plants haven't lapsed into their
>normal fall dormancy, yet there's an excellent chance we'll have sub-zero
>temperatures within the next six weeks.
>
>But summers are the reason you get no rebloom reports from me. By June,
>normal temperatures are routinely over 100 and the humidity under 20% --
>with some days over 110 degrees with single-digit RHs . Kind of like
>stepping out into a dessicating oven. Arils and most arilbreds cope by
>going dormant. TBs need shade cloth to survive, but not even shadecloth
>has been sufficient to coax rebloom.
>
>Evaporative coolers are the norm here, and because they don't recirculate
>the air like refrigerated units a window must be left open to alleviate the
>pressure. The bed in which I managed to get rebloom was located directly
>below the open window, where it got full sun only until about 10 a.m.,
>partial shade until about 2 p.m., and full shade for the rest of the day.
>A successful experiment, but not exactly what one would normally do to
>promote rebloom.
>
>Now, my own pet peeve is an unsigned message -- so I guess we're even.
><G>
>
>Sharon McAllister
>73372.1745@compuserve.com
>
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