Re: Reblooming Immortality
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- Subject: Re: Reblooming Immortality
- From: d*@llano.net
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 96 02:58:33 GMT
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On 10/8/96 6:06PM, in message <325ADDD8.27AB@ix.netcom.com>,
John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
SCHAFFCM@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU wrote:
>
> Additionally -- update on my reblooming stalk of IMMORTALITY -- the
terminal
> bloom is STILL hanging in there!! the new bud is just beginning to
show
> color next to the terminal, and there is a second bloom down the stalk.
> this would win at least queen of the show at a fall iris show!! This
bloom
> is nearly 5 days old!!
>
Way cool. My first stalk of Ship Shape is within two days of opening, I can
see
about 2 inches of blue above the green outside casing of the bud (is
there a name
for those parts?)
---
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
--
The green casing is the spathe.
Witch of Endor has about 8 bloom stalks just loaded with buds. I
can't wait. She is one of my favorite rebloomers.
Dana Brown Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where the coldest it's ever been is
-17 on 2/8/33 and the warmest it's
ever been is 114 on 6/27/94
