Re: Among Friends rebloom
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  • Subject: Re: Among Friends rebloom
  • From: B* W* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:48:57 -0400
Folks, lets have a little reality here.  We don't have a large number reliable
reblooming irises.  Things that are reliable in Italy, are not necessarily
reliable in Scottsville KY.  Thins that are reliable in California are not
reliable in KY.  Things that are reliable in Linda's back yard do not rebloom
in my back yard.  


Can we please find a way to encourach and reward those
that breed for rebloomers in all geological areas?  We can throw all types of
caution and cantankerous intervention in the mix, but do we really want to?
<<For my highly variable climates, in order to say for sure that an iris 
is a
reliable rebloomer here, I would want to grow it for 3 or 4 yrs 
after first
bloomstalk, without dividing.  I wouldn't know what to call 
it if it
rebloomed <one> of those years.  If I grew it 10 yrs and it 
rebloomed twice,
I still wouldn't know.>>




Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris
<iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: [iris] Among
Friends rebloom


Good question, Chuck.  & not one I'd try to answer, either
for genetics 
or for garden information.

For my highly variable climates, in
order to say for sure that an iris 
is a reliable rebloomer here, I would want
to grow it for 3 or 4 yrs 
after first bloomstalk, without dividing.  I
wouldn't know what to call 
it if it rebloomed <one> of those years.  If I
grew it 10 yrs and it 
rebloomed twice, I still wouldn't know.

One of the
values of the rebloom checklist is that even tho you can't 
tell how often it
reblooms in one place, if it's reported for a lot of 
states/countries USDA
zones, they it's probably safe to call it a real 
rebloomer.

So a single time
reblooming for Shaub, with no obvious rebloom genetics, 
may not mean much,
but if half a dozen people report rebloom, even if 
it's sporadic, maybe it
becomes useful information.

On 9/30/2014 10:30 AM, Chuck Chapman wrote:
> As
bloom is a complex relationship of genetics and environment there
> can be an
odd situation where a plant will bloom twice in a season. The
> question is
then  how many examples of twice bloom in a season do we
> need to classify an
iris as a rebloomer. Is a one time report  enough to
> classify it as a
rebloomer? As versus a one off misfire of  bloom codes
> in response to an
unusual growing season?
>
> Chuck Chapman
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
From: Phloid <4390a9e81@rewrite.hort.net>
> To: iris <iris@hort.net>
> Sent:
Mon, Sep 29, 2014 9:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [iris] Among Friends rebloom
>
>
Thanks Robin. I'll have to trust it's to label since I am not not
> familiar
with the full field of MTBs. Will post a pic to the photos
> listserve in a
few days. It has been a good year for me rebloom wise so
> we'll see how it
does next year.
>
> So we can avoid any false double reports, FYI I am a RIS
member so I'll
> be reporting it to Region 4 when they ask for submittals. It
will be
> under Shaub Dunkley, Candler NC. (Z6b)
>
> Another surpriser on the
way! Western Hills (per source) (1 yo clump)
> has three stalks budding out.
RIS '12 shows only VA z6 reporting it so
> far. I really expected it to be
very sporadic and to perhaps never see
> it rebloom for me.
>
> BTW folks, I'm
into the historic remontants and carriers. I'm looking to
> network with
people to help get the endangered ones back on their feet.
> You too? Chat me
up. I'm a HIPS member as well.
>
> Shaub
> On 9/29/2014 4:44 PM, Robin Shadlow
wrote:
>> We will add Among Friends to the RIS data base.  There are many
>
cultivars which are not registered as rebloomers.  They may never
> rebloom in
the hybridizer's garden, but move it around and you never know.
>>
>> Thanks
for reporting it!
>>
>> Robin Shadlow
>> zone 8 Salem, OR
>>
>>
>>
>> On
Monday, September 29, 2014 12:52 PM, Phloid
> <4390a9e81@rewrite.hort.net>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes; it has bloomed two springs and now this fall. I have
an email in
> to
>> Wildwood Gardens where I bought it. There are stalks on
different fans
>> so it not a sporadic sort of rebloom. I will say the height
of the
>> spring stalks are not nearly the 18" of the Eregistry description
but
>> short stalks are normal for me.
>>
>> On 9/29/2014 6:48 AM, Chuck
Chapman wrote:
>>> Did the same clump bloom in the spring?
>>>
>>> Chuck
Chapman
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Phloid
<4390a9e81@rewrite.hort.net>
>>> To: iris <iris@hort.net>
>>> Sent: Mon, Sep
29, 2014 12:00 am
>>> Subject: [iris] Among Friends rebloom
>>>
>>> What I
bought under label Among Friends is reblooming right now. The
>>> flower looks
like AF to me, I am just surprised to see rebloom since
> I
>>> haven't a
reference to it doing so, including the 2012 RIS Checklist.
>>> Shaub
>>>
http://www.avast.com
>>>
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