Re: CULT: planting seeds
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- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 05:50:54 +1030
From: "Colleen Modra" <irises@senet.com.au>
Hi
I was fascinated by your comment that you had had your seeds in the freezer
since August. Is that just dry or in a bit of damp soil. Here in Australia I
tend to plant my seeds out in pots in Autumn and put them in a very exposed
place so they can get as many frosts as possible. However I am interested in
artifical stratifing so I can germinate them earlier and plant then out in
autumn , as here they won't freeze over winter, here, and I just want to get
a bit more growth on them and also so I don't have to do all the planting
out of the seedlings at the busiest time of the year.
So how do you stratify your seeds, I'd love to hear from as many different
people as possible.
Colleen Modra, where we're just past the peak of bloom and my much beloved
Frosting has just come into bloom.
-----Original Message-----
From: wmoores <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>; iris-talk@onelist.com
<iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, 8 November 1999 12:07
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: planting seeds
>From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
>
>
>
>On 7 Nov 99, at 0:37, Dennis Kramb wrote:
>
>> From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>>
>> I started planting iris seeds today. This summer I harvested seeds from
>> about 75 pods, and I managed to get about 1/3 of them planted today.
When
>> do the rest of you folks start planting?
>>
>> Dennis, we have no had a freeze yet and have temperatures up
>into the mid 80's according to the bank thermometers in Charleston
>yesterday. It was 91o on the porch thermometer yesterday, and it
>is in the shade! This is still 'real' summer time and not Indian
>Summer because it hasn't frozen here, and I do not plant until after
>it freezes when I know fall is definitely here. So, this year, it looks
>like late November or early December will be seed planting time for
>me. My bearded seeds have been in the freezer since August.
>If I plant in warm soil, they will germinate too soon and get zapped
>by a later freeze.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
>
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