Re: cult: cutting for indoors
- Subject: Re: cult: cutting for indoors
- From: J* I* J*
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:15:10 -0800
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
Iarejan@aol.com wrote:
>
> From: Iarejan@aol.com
>
> Iris buddies, help me!!!!
> Perhaps you saw my posting regarding the bud on Dashing I currently
> have... today is Sunday, it's still pretty enclosed by leaves and we leave for
> a trip to Philadelphia on tuesday!!
Jan,
If the stalk is still down in the fan, and there is no flower color showing at
the tip of the bud, then I doubt it will be opened in 7 days. *But* the trick
is to guage it against other bloom processes that you have seen on your irises
in your garden, and compare this one to them. It certainly won't be any faster
than the bloom process in the warm days at the height of your bloom season.
It depends a lot on your temperatures now. For me here in northern
California), in the early spring and the fall when temps are generally cooler,
stalks can take 14- 21 days to open from the time I spot them at 2-3 inches
high. In the fall particularily, things slow down. Even if you have a few warm
days, if the nights are cool (mid 40's and below) it is likely to take more
than 7 days for the stalk to grow to height and the bloom to mature enough to
open. Even then it takes a number of days to show color and sometimes takes a
day to fully open from the time the first fall cracks open.
I have stalks of Mariposa Skies (Tasco '96) that have been trying for 3-4
weeks to open, and I've had some nice 60-70 degree days (but 40-50 nights).
(Georgeous flower btw, 13-14 sockets per rz, and 4 rzs in bloom process on a 1
1/2 yr old plant)
So judge things against other happenings in your iris garden and expect it to
take longer now than in the spring.
Even if it were at height, but at tight bud stage, and you cut it, brought it
in, kept it warm (room temp), fed it Sprite and water (30-70), trimmed the end
every other day, and talked nice to it, it would still probably 3-5 days till
it opened anyway.
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