Re: TB-CULT: Wrinkled fans

If I understand the description correctly, I too have
seen this some springs on a plant or two. I also
figured perhaps weather was a cause, but that's just a
guess. Ditto for no blooms recalled on such fans.

--- Jeffrey Walters <jeffwiris@yahoo.com> wrote:

> ---<< Bzzscheile@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Almost every one of these seedlings
> > has a wad of wrinkled fans 
> > besides the normal fans which usually means an
> iris
> > is going to bloom but it 
> > looks like multiple stalks forming from one
> starting
> > point (haven't actually 
> > seen any stalks).  This started about 2 months ago
> > and I thought they might 
> > bloom this fall but so far no go.  What causes
> this
> > bunching of fans? >> 
> 
> Barbara,
> 
> I usually see a condition such as you describe on at
> least some of my irises in the spring most years. I
> have attributed it to sudden and sharp changes in
> temperature (not uncommmon here in the spring),
> which
> disrupts the growth rate of the emerging leaves and
> results in their tangled and distorted appearance. I
> don't recall that any of these fans, even if they
> are
> of bloom size, ever produced a stalk. 
> 
> 
> Jeff Walters
> in northern Utah
> (USDA Zone 4)
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Carole Taber
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Zone 4/5
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