Re: Re: classifying as a Rebloomer
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Re: classifying as a Rebloomer
  • From: B* W* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:41:32 -0400
May be a matter of neuances, but . . . just because something doesn't rebloom
in your yard doesn't mean they aren't rebloomers.   My opinion.  'Forever
Blue' doesn't rebloom here, but I don't question that it is a rebloomer . . .
for you and others.   



<<A once off event  of rebloom is exciting, and
worth noting , but  
doesn't make that plant a rebloomer for  me.  I have over
the years 
have had a good number of  oncers put up an out of season or even
twice 
a year bloom. these things can and do happen. <<<<


Doesn't make it a
rebloomer  as far as I'm concerned.>>


'Victoria Falls' did fall bloom for me
in Alvaton, in the 90's.  It grew over 40 inches tall and I quit counting at
18 buds.  Don't think it has done this since.  It's my opinion that it's been
proven to be a plus when breeding rebloomers.  It contributed height,
branching and improved flower form.  Maybe there was another path?  Maybe even
a better path, but nothing else has proven to measure up.  


Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck
Chapman <db4f61431@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, Oct
2, 2014 7:16 am
Subject: [iris] Re: classifying as a Rebloomer


Bloom
triggers for plants are complicated, and you can occasionally get 
misfires. A
number of years ago in our area some apple trees  bloomed 
in fall. But a once
off occurrence. Rebloom yes, but it doesn't make 
these apple trees
rebloomers.

  Right now I have  Victoria Falls in bloom, and on a 50" stalk,
standing up straight and tall. But the only time it has fall bloomed in 
over
20 years of growing it. I'm not going to send in a rebloom report 
on it as it
is a once off event. About 4 years ago I had a fall bloom 
on a clump of Best
Bet. Again a  once off event as it also has done 
this once in about 20 years.
I'm not going to list them as rebloomers 
for me in my zone 4 garden. And
having them listed as  zone 4 
rebloomers would be inaccurate and deceptive.
Not a behaviour you can 
rely on.

On the other hand, my SDB Juiced Up is
reblooming now on several 
clumps. I first had rebloom on  Juiced Up about
2006, after initial 
bloom in 1998. It was interesting, but even if it had a
rebloom parent, 
that still didn't make it a rebloomer. But in the past  four
years it 
has rebloomed  three times. I'll now report it as a rebloomer for my
climate zone.

A once off event  of rebloom is exciting, and worth noting ,
but  
doesn't make that plant a rebloomer for  me.  I have over the years
have had a good number of  oncers put up an out of season or even twice 
a
year bloom. these things can and do happen. Doesn't make it a 
rebloomer  as
far as I'm concerned.

Chuck Chapman
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